D&H CANVAS September 2018 by Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Cragsmoor, Ellenville, & Marlboro

September 2018

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FROM THE PUBLISHER by Barry Plaxen Synchronicities of the Month: A FatherDaughter poetry reading in Wurtsboro and a Father-Son poetry reading in Goshen. Both fathers living with dogs. Musical Koan in Warwick and Poetic Koan in Sugar Loaf. “Internal” purple prose in Wurtsboro (art & photography) and Monticello & White Lake (music). Vocabulary Lesson: Contrapuntal: two or more independent melodic lines. Koan: a paradoxical anecdote or riddle used to provoke enlightenment. In this issue: Another Pechakucha Night in Amity.

Jewish & Pop Punk Music in Phillipsport. An exhibit honoring Shawn Dell Joyce (Montgomery) and a dedication honoring Elaine Giguere (Narrowsburg). Moon Festival in Huguenot, Storytelling Festival in Florida, Harvest Festival in Bethel. Film Festivals in Narrowsburg and Newburgh, Readers & Writers Festival in Milford. Burlesque in Highland Lake, Opera in Callicoon and Drag in Forestburgh. Opportunities for artists, singers. Farces in Monroe (musical), Ellenville and South Fallsburg. And the origins of the word, too. Barbershop harmonies in Glen Spey. Director Paul Austin returns to Sullivan

County to direct in Loch Sheldrake. A “Learn, Create, Share, Act” Forum in Hurleyville. Auditing a post-concert master class in Monroe. An Orange County creative with an art exhibit in Greenwood Lake and a jazz/ flamenco concert in Marlboro. Two new plays in Goshen and one in Ellenville. Alan Alda and Mary Badham in Milford. Steve Martin and Martin Short in Bethel. Once again CANVAS wishes to thank all those who helped our in-house staff of two prepare the issue with their releases and info. And hearty thanks to those who help us distribute and to those who display copies.

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It is always a delight to pick up a copy of CANVAS. You have renewed my faith in the kindness of others and our mutual devotion to creativity. Personal pressures and family business prevented me from sending out the usual press announcements and buying some ad spaces. However, despite my fumble, you picked up the ball and ran a lovely summary of our annual Artists’ Day’s events here at Blackfeather Retreat. As ever, you and your readers have an open invitation to join us in celebrating the creative human spirit. - Mark Philip Stone, Westbrookville Thank you Barry! Two visitors already asked about the Stiltwalkers on your August 2018 cover and our event! - Lori McKean , Grey Towers Thanks so much for the space on THE LION! Great spread on BANG BANG! too! - Ray Faiola, Shadowland Stages

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Artist / Activist / Writer Shawn Dell Joyce plein air painting in Rock Hill. See pages 11, 13 & 32

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Calendars Art & Photography �� 18 Books �� 18 Category �� 15 Children & Teen’s �� 18 September 2018 Calendar �� 16-17 Lectures, Artist Talks, Masterclasses �� 14 Music - Pop, Folk, Rock, etc., �� 14 Columns May I Have A Word With You �� 31 Meet Me in The Greenroom �� 19 Wellness Modalities �� 29 Stories Adrienne M. Butvinik Scholarship �� 10 Amity Gallery, Warwick �� 20 Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh �� 16 Artery Gallery, Milford ��7 Artists’ Market, Shohola �� 23 Artspace, Kauneonga Lake ��7 Big Eddy Film Festival, Narrowsburg �� 27 Bertoni Gallery, Warwick ��4 Bethel Woods �� 16, 26 Black Dirt Storytelling Guild, Florida �� 24 Brian Petti, playwright �� 19 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor ��8 Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen �� 15, 19 Crawford Arts Association, Pine Bush ��6 Creative Theatre Muddy-Water Players ��7 Dead End Cafe, Parksville ��5 Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg �11, 27 Delaware Valley Opera, Callicoon ��4 Erin Flynn, artist, Washingtonville �� 12 Falcon, Marlboro ��9 Florida Public Library �� 24, 28 Forestburgh Tavern �� 25 Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley ��6

Community Arts: News, Views And Schedules Publisher, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com ads@dhcanvas.com Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 www.dhcanvas.com 845.926.4646 / 4647 Facebook: D&H CANVAS Please email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Please email submissions for classifieds to classified@dhcanvas.com Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Grand Montgomery Chamber Music �� 23 Greenwood Lake Library ��6 Highland Mills Library �� 12 Hurleyville Arts Centre �� 8, 14, 30 In Memoriam: Marya A. Kennett �� 23 Judi Silvano & Joe Lovano ��9 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford ��4 Leo’s Restaurant, Cornwall �� 21 Leonie Lacouette, clock artist �� 25 Lumberland Cultural Series, Glen spey ��4 Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro �� 26 Manhattan Short Film Festival �� 26 Mary Roth, photographer �� 21 Megaphone Series, Sugar Loaf �� 20 Milford Music Festival ��4 Milford Readers & Writers Festival �� 31 Moon Festival, Huguenot �� 25 Mt. St. Mary College Desmond Campus �� 12 Music for Humanity �� 30 Music on Market, Ellenville �� 9, 28 NACL Theatre, Highland Lake �� 25 Opportunity: Artist �� 6, 30 Opportunity: Singer �� 30 Pacem in Terris, Warwick ��5 Phillipsport Community Center �� 22 Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe ��7 Poetry at the Church, Goshen �� 29 River Valley Artists Guild �� 22 Rivoli Theatre, South Fallsburg �� 24 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf �� 20 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville �� 29 Shawn Dell Joyce, artist ��11 Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra �� 10 SUNY Orange, Middletown �� 21 SUNY Orange, Newburgh �� 26 SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake ��3 Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville � 14 Wallkill River School, Montgomery ��11 Wurtsboro Art Alliance ��3

Wurtsboro Art Alliance: “Life’s Memories” The Wurtsboro Art Alliance’s (WAA) theme for their September exhibit is Life’s Memories - something we all have and share. They may bring a smile or a tear, but will always remain our internal “oldie movies.” The exhibit includes artworks that portray and represent memories, personal or imagined, and may evoke some of your own! The first image displayed in this article was taken at Monument Park at Yankee Stadium by WAA member John Kocijanski. Monument Park, an open-air museum containing a collection of monuments, plaques, and retired numbers honoring distinguished members of the New York Yankees, is a pilgrimage trip for true, diehard Yankee fans. Life’s Memories runs September 1-30. Mingle with the artists and enjoy refreshments at the free opening reception on September 8 from 2:00pm-4:00pm. In July 1946, WAA member Gene Weinstein was a 21 year old sailor on board the U.S.S. Mt. McKinley in the Pacific Ocean anchored off the Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands. He participated in Operation Crossroads, ordered by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to “test the effects of the atomic bomb

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on naval vessels.” The sailors stood on deck with no protective gear. Mr. Weinstein will give a free and open to the public thought provoking lecture that recounts the detrimental effects of these tests on participants and the struggle to have the government “Yankee Memories” by J. Kocijanski Gene Weinstein recognize their responsibilities on September 29 at 5:00pm again to new attendees and for those from at the WAA’s John Neilson Gallery, 73 the August class that may want to improve Sullivan Street. the technique they learned on September 29 In addition, two free September classes from 9:30am-11:30am. will be offered by the WAA at the Gallery. Both free classes are limited to 6 attendees, Attendees can create poly clay tiles and 18yrs+, all materials supplied by the WAA. embossed paper to transform a simple wood Pre-registration required. Call 845-341-3014 frame into a unique Baroque style mirror - or email info@waagallery.org or to use as a frame to display a memory on Free classes are made possible in part September 15 from 9:30am-Noon. with funding from a Sullivan County Arts Jim Scott will once again teach his class & Heritage Grant funded by the Sullivan on Drawing Perspective. Last month’s class County Legislature and administered by was well received and Jim agreed to offer it Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.

In a world where female customers account for 65% of ticket revenue, but only 39% of actors, 36% of directors, and 28% of writers of plays, we must do better to educate our emerging theater artists and audiences Johnna Adams of the work of female theater artists. Studies have shown that only 1 in 5 productions produced in regional theater are written by women. Therefore, this year, SUNY Sullivan’s Paul Austin Theater Program will be producing a diverse array of plays written by women. Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams, directed by Paul Austin is the first production of the 2018-2019 Women Playwright’s Season, highlighting a complicated play about suicide during National Suicide Prevention Month. Every production will have a talk back with the cast and a counselor who works in Sullivan County. The show runs September 6-9 in room C-106, 112 College Road, Loch Sheldrake. Tickets at the door. Suggested donation: $10.

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Happy First Birthday, Bertoni Warwick Bertoni Gallery in Sugar Loaf is now celebrating 18 years in business. Bertoni Gallery in Warwick is now celebrating its first year in business where you can find owner Rachel Bertoni’s work as well as an array of other local artists’ creations in various mediums offering jewelry, leather, glass, stitchery, ceramics, recycled items and fine art. There will be a Small Works exhibition featuring 25 visiting artists that work in

oil paintings, photography, watercolors, mixed media and sculpture. They will be showcased in a fall showing that will open on September 1 and remain on view through December 31. The September 1, 6:00pm-8:00pm opening reception will include music, a raffle, hors d’oeuvres, an award ceremony, craft beer tasting from the Glenmere Brewery and massages with Jennifer Powers. For information call 845-324-8686.

Glen Spey: Off The Clef! Off The Clef is a quartet that “for various reasons, enjoy singing barbershop harmony.” Members are Skip Tarrant (bass), Ted Richter (baritone), Jonathan McElhaney (lead) and tenor Adam Blackman. Jonathan and Skip are members of the Barbershop Harmony Society, and have sung with a few different choruses over the past few years. Adam and Ted first experienced barbershop singing as a result of performing

in the play, The Music Man and decided to pursue singing further. Town of Lumberland Cultural Series presents Off the Clef in an afternoon of barbershop music on September 16 at 3:00pm at Lumberland Town Hall, 1054 Proctor Road, Glen Spey. A “meet the artists” reception follows the concert. Refreshments will be served. Tickets at the door. For information, call 845-856-6372.

Young Dubliners Perform in Milford Although the Young Dubliners are known as a Celtic rock band, that label oversimplifies what they do. Irish rhythms and melodies may be front and center, but they’re not the only influence on this quintet. After all, only two of the members are actually from Ireland, and “a lot of the music we listened to growing up wasn’t Irish at all,” says vocalist and guitarist Keith Roberts. “When we got here, we got homesick and developed a new appreciation for Irish music.” The Young Dubliners features Roberts, bass player Brandan Holmes, percussionist

Dave Ingraham, guitarist Justin Pecot, and Chas Waltz, a musical wizard who plays keyboards, violin, harp, and mandolin. The Young Dubliners crown the Milford Music Festival Septemberfest on September 8 at 7:30pm for Kindred Spirits Arts Programs when they bring their supercharged mix of Irish folk music and rock to the Milford Theatre, 114 E.Catherine Street, Milford. Tickets: www.kindredspiritsarts.org See Apple Valley and Waterwheel Cafe ads on page 21 for dining options.

Opera-Cabaret in Callicoon - September 1 The Delaware Valley Opera (DVO) has been in residence at the Tusten Theatre in Narrowsburg each summer since 1991. “Once you’ve got a taste for Opera, nothing else will do!,” claims DVO Artistic Director Carol Castel. “Join us for our annual Gala Opera Cabaret on September 1 at the Western Inn and Supper Club in Callicoon. The evening begins at 7:00pm. We’ll be entertaining you in the Harmonie Hall Ballroom 4

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with music, drinks and dinner!” Don’t miss this extraordinary entertaining event! A variety of performers will participate in a concert of operatic Robert Muller as “Papageno” and Cole selections followed by Tornberg as “Tamino” in DVO’s 2018 an elaborate selection of production of “The Magic Flute” nibbles and drink to be enjoyed at tables. The Western Inn and Supper Club is located at 22 Upper Main Street, Callicoon. For tickets to the 1st Spirit: Rhianna Ring-Howell, 2nd Spirit: Gala, visit www. Elysia Ring-Howell & 3rd Spirit: Rebekah DelawareValleyOpera.org Creshkoff in “The Magic Flute”

Musical Koans at Pacem in Terris “A koan is more than a mere conundrum. It is a jolting question, theme, or problem - paradoxical and sometimes quite nonsensical in appearance - which, in Rinzai Zen, the master gives a student to solve.” - Frederick Franck, quote in his own words, from his Serenade Quartet: Keats Dieffenbach & Krista Bennion Feeney: violins, book, “The Supreme Koan.” John Feeney: bass, Jessica Troy: viola, & Dan Haskins: percussion. “We have percussionist Dan Haskins Danse macabre, Op. 40, started out in and the Serenade Quartet lined up for 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a September,” announced Pacem in Terris’ French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which co-artistic director, Krista Bennion is based on an old French superstition. In Feeney. 1874, the composer expanded and reworked “John (Feeney) made an incredible the piece into a tone poem, replacing the arrangement of Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre vocal line with a solo violin part. Poeme Symphonique. I’ll play Bach’s According to legend, “Death” appears at Chaccone and we’ll do some of his Art of the midnight every year on Halloween. Death Fugue and the last unfinished Chorale that calls forth the dead from their graves to he dictated on his deathbed line by line to his dance for him while he plays his fiddle. His son-in-law. There’ll be other pieces TBD!” skeletons dance for him until the rooster The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, was written crows at dawn, when they must return to in the last decade of Bach’s life. It is the their graves until the next year. culmination of Bach’s experimentation with Imagine the dead dancing to Dan Haskins’ monothematic instrumental works. xylophonic bones-rattle at Pacem in Terris, “The governing idea of the work,” as put 96 Covered Bridge Road, Warwick, on by Bach specialist Christoph Wolff, “was September 9 at 5:00pm. an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal For reservations: 845-986-4329. possibilities inherent in a single musical Arrive early and visit the museum! subject.” Visit www.frederickfranck.org for info.

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Pitcher’s Watercolors in Lords Valley Nancy Pitcher began Nancy brings yet another painting 20 years ago in the colorful display of her folk art and decorative painting watercolors for a show at the modality. She has spent a lot Gallery at Chant Realtors, of time mountain and rock 631 Route 739, Lords climbing, hiking, skiing and Valley, PA, from September biking throughout the U.S. 1-October 27. Most of her artistic inspiration Florals, birds, butterflies, comes from her “great little creatures and much more outdoors” observations. comprise a beautiful selection of meticulously rendered President of the Pocono watercolor drawings. Mountain Arts Association, Meet Nancy at the opening Nancy is “inspired by the “Butterflies” by N. Pitcher opportunity to work with so many talented reception on September 8 from 5:00pm7:00pm. For information: 570-775-7337. artists and persons dedicated to the arts.”

Greenwood Lake Library: Judi Silvano and is a represented artist at Judi Silvano’s colorful the Wallkill River School. history has led her from Her paintings have an early dance career and garnered the Mary Evelyn training as a classical Whitehill Award, First singer, to becoming an Prize in a juried show at accomplished jazz vocalist, Mt. St. Mary College and composer, and most recently Honorable Mention from a visual artist. the Middletown Art Group. Judi has been painting As a singer, Judi has and drawing throughout her “McCoy Tyner” by Judi Silvano life, becoming a collector of art and artifacts toured internationally and recorded with with an appreciation for diverse cultures from many jazz greats, releasing fourteen albums traveling around the world. Her evolution of both classics and original songs. View Judi’s latest paintings at the as a visual artist shows her unique personal history as dancer and musician in her visual Greenwood Lake Public Library, 79 Waterstone Road, where she is the featured renderings. Judi is a member of the Goshen Art artist for the month of September. For information: 845-477-8377, ext. 104. League, Woodstock Art Association, North Visit www.judisilvano.com for more East Watercolor Society, Middletown Art Group, WashingtonvilleArtist Cooperative information about Judi.

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY The Crawford Arts Bush, NY 12566. Association (CAA) has Successful artists will be announced a new townnotified by email or phone wide project for charity: by October 3. Pick-up of COWsTRAVAGANZA! the cows will be on October Three half-sized resin 3 between 10:00am and cows will be awarded to 2:00pm in the government three artists whose designs hall at which time a typify the sophisticated/ refundable check of $25 is rural aspect of the Town The CAA’s Lynn Garrett & Bob Scully required for assurance. of Crawford. Artists must stand beside one of the Bessies! All cows must be demonstrate a theme with costuming and completed by November 14 and presented for paint. Artists may add ropes, strings and publicity and display around Pine Bush and shiny do-dads (mostly anything that will the Town of Crawford. Turn-in location is the adhere to the skin of the cow and withstand 2nd floor gallery of the Town of Crawford the weather). Artists can show off their zeal, Government Center, 121 Route 302, whimsical nature and talents to the public! Pine Bush, between the hours of 1:00pm to Artists will garner notoriety and publicity 4:00pm. Check out the CAA ad on page 10. for their efforts in the various local newspapers Cows will be placed on display throughout and the CAA Facebook page. Artists or Crawford to reap interest in the culminating groups of artists will be featured prominently auction held during the Toy for Tots dinner in along with their creations. December by U.S. Marines and the Town of Interested artists have until October 1 for Crawford. Proceeds from the auction will be submissions to the selection committee via given to Toys for Tots for the holiday season. email: salaiello93@gmail.com or via snail Email crawfordartsassociation@gmail.com mail to: Crawford Arts Association, 615 Pine or salaiello93@gmail.com for information. 6

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Sullivan Artists’ Silent Auction The Bethel Council of viewings on August 31, from the Arts (BCA) will host its 2:00pm-8:00pm, September 3rd annual silent auction and 1, from Noon-8:00pm and reception on September 2. on September 2, from NoonBid on original works by 5:00pm. Bids will be accepted Sullivan County artists during during the viewings. the interactive silent auction. A Ample refreshments and wide range of artist donations live music performances will of visual art, sculpture, pottery be given for a festive evening and jewelry will provide the during the reception on opportunity to acquire unique September 2 from 5:00pmlocally created artwork in all 8:00pm. price ranges. There will also be “Blue Vase of Happiness” Proceeds benefit both the artists and the BCA. It all takes donations of goods and services by Adrienne Walker from local businesses to bid on. place at Artspace, 3575 State Route 55, Everyone is invited to attend this free Kauneonga Lake. For information: 917-579-7080. event, which begins with advance art

Freaky Fun For Everyone in Monroe Come and meet the Directed by Donna family! We’ll leave the Polichetti, with musical lights off for you... direction by Brian Flint In this original story, the and choreography by Diane macabre Addams family Holbert, the Creative is put to the test, and it’s Theatre-Muddy Water every father’s nightmare. Players continue their 2018 Wednesday Addams, season with the popular Broadway musical comedy, the ultimate princess of Addams Family, darkness, has grown up Pictured left to right: Robin Evans, The and fallen in love with a David Mossey and Amber Martir September 8-23. All performances are at the Playhouse sweet, smart young man from a respectable family - a man her parents have never met. at Museum Village, Route 17M, Monroe. Everything will change for the whole family Tickets include dessert at intermission on the fateful night they host a dinner for consisting of apple pie, ice cream, cheese, Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his iced tea and coffee. Group rates available, reservations suggested. Call 845-294-9465. parents!

Tree, Landscape & Plant Paintings The ARTery Gallery’s traditional vision of nature. September exhibit features Her paintings have a calm two long time members, mood and atmosphere with Marie Liu and Rosalind a surprising perception Hodgkins. Their paintings of landscape and plants. are complementary in that She creates abstract forms each artist is deeply rooted in composed with familiar the natural world, where they images, each composition get much of their inspiration. developed from many working However, their intentions sketches. Her knowledge of differ, Hodgkins seeking to technique has come from 50 infuse the image with original years of painting. “Nurturing Tree” by M. Liu perspective and imaginative In her latest series, viewpoint, while Liu seeks Windows, the fractured to tell the story of a region. appearances of her images Marie Liu explores the refer to the various ways many ways that trees are nature is seen through metaphors for the human apertures and natural kinds experience and our emotional of visual framing that can distort the angle of view. The connection to them in her use of reflective surfaces Tree Stories series. She is inspired to create paintings “Counterpoint” by R. Hodgkins also creates interesting that celebrate trees and the stories they can divisions and relationships of images. A wine and cheese reception takes place tell us as stoic witnesses to history, providers of shelter and food to animals, and invaluable on September 8, from 6:00pm-9:00pm. The exhibit is on view through October resources for human existence with their 8 at ARTery Gallery, 210 Broad Street, beauty as an antidote to a frenzied world. Rosalind Hodgkins’ art portrays a non- Milford, PA. www.arterygallerymilford.com September 2018

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Joan Giordano: “Overview, 1993-2018”

TalkingFireisafiercely natural embrace of music creative quartet from is awe-inspiring. the Catskill Mountains. Vocalist Bonga JeanThe brainchild of poet Baptiste (percussion Richard Traviss, they & kalimba) is a master combine reggae grooves Talking Fire performs in Hurleyville, Sept. 7 drummer and a repository with conscious lyricism of Haitian dance and song. that invites the listener to A pioneer of Haitian Racine participate in expressing music, he is the founder themselves. They craft of Haitian roots bands captivating anthems about Boukman Eksperyans and true love, spirituality, Bethany Foula. Rufus Bonga equality, and herbal tea. All of the members of the group have been Bethany & Rufus with Bonga Jean- instrumental in expanding the role of traditional Baptiste conjure the ancestral traditions forms in their respective music: Bethany, the of the old world and the new. The group daughter of 60’s folk singer Peter Yarrow of weaves the folk music of the Americas with Peter, Paul & Mary, draws from a rich legacy the ceremonial Vodou traditions of Haiti. A of American folk music; Rufus is noted for thrilling and unexpected synergy of song, his collaborations with international folkloric culture, rhythm and blues. artists as well as his solo cello repertoire; and Bethany Yarrow (vocals) sings music Bonga descends from an original lineage of of power and praise. A song keeper, earth Vodou ceremonial drumming and folklore. activist, and student of the spiritual traditions Together they are a force for good in the of the Americas, she is a mesmerizing, dancing world of music and the world at large. Inside spirit with a powerful voice. the polyrhythmic groove, there is a message Rufus Cappadocia (strings) is a multi- of peace, respect, and unity that reaches out to lingual musician, composer and recording audiences across language and time. artist. He is a virtuoso cellist known for his Groove to their music and take heed of their transcendent improvisation and percussive message on September 7 at 8:00pm when style. Spanning the modalities of Middle they perform at the Hurleyville Arts Centre, Eastern, West African, pan-European, and 12 Railroad Avenue, Hurleyville. American folk forms, Rufus’ effortless and See page 6 for ad and ticket information.

Since the 1980’s, Joan with Asian characters, Giordano has maintained with accents of tightly studios in both Manhattan corrugated red material and Roscoe. lending vibrancy. Giordano’s earliest work Epoch (2016) is a on view, Ancient Terrain, collection of textures, (1993) and Tighter Ties, including the rolled (1995), feature the artist’s newspapers that are exploration with the now part of Giordano’s malleability of copper and materials. The surfaces of paper, giving the feeling the squared panels making of artifacts created many up the relief are various millennia before. Her and offer strong painterly “Epoch” by Jane Giordano series Presences continues interest - we remember with an inspection of the architectural quality that Giordano began as a painter. of paper. Giordano renders anthropomorphic Giordano has enjoyed more than sixty forms from kozo paper, hanging them from museum and gallery exhibitions both thin steel fasteners floating from the wall. nationally and internationally. Her works The 7 works take on a spiritual reality in appear in American embassies throughout physical terms - something of a contradiction, the world including Zambia, Austria, Cyprus, and together feel like a communal gathering, Vienna, Turkey and Bulgaria. Giordano was much like those in places of worship. also honored at a White House breakfast with In Giordano’s recent work, she has the First Lady. contemporized her wall reliefs by including Overview (1993-2018), an exhibition rolled sheets of newspaper. She began this bringing together 25 years of Giordano’s practice in response to the 2016 presidential work, runs September 1-October 27 at the elections. Doing so added color, in the form Catskill Art Society (CAS) Art Center, of photos with differing hues, to a mostly off- 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor. CAS white construction. Free Press (2016) is a will host an Artists Talk on September 1 at squared relief work whose center consists of 4:00pm, followed by Giordano’s opening rolls of colorful newspaper; around it, we find reception from 5:00pm-6:00pm. a whitish frame of paper, some of it covered For more info, see CAS ad below.

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Jazz with a Spanish Tinge: Flamenco Joins Lovano / Silvano at The Falcon, Marlboro by Philip Ehrensaft Jelly Roll Morton, the pioneering New Orleans pianist who famously claimed to have invented jazz, pointed towards the “Spanish tinge” which was part and parcel of jazz from its earliest days. New Orleans, during early twentieth century, functioned as America’s main port city connection to the Caribbean and South America. Via the constant flow of Spanish-speaking merchants and sailors into New Orleans, Hispanic music became part and parcel of music- Jazz powerhouse duo: Joe Lovano & Judi Silvano making in the city that became the birthplace arranger Daniel Pimental, and the ballerina Natalia Loza. Silvano thought about of jazz. So the new partnership between the eminent the intriguing musical possibilities of a jazz couple Joe Lovano and Judi Silvano, collaboration between the Dueto, herself and and the Mexico-based Dueto Andaluz her saxophonist husband Joe Lovano. Those possibilities will take concrete Flamenco dance and music ensemble, is a natural fit. An especially natural fit shape on Saturday night, September 22 at because, first, improvisation is at the heart of 8:00pm on the stage of The Falcon, 1348 Flamenco music, just as improvisation is the US-9W, Marlboro. The music will feature core of jazz. Second, Flamenco, like jazz, compositions by Silvano and Lovano, as is permeated by irresistible foot-tapping well as Spanish classics. Lovano, who has rhythms and soaring melodic lines. Jazz won more major jazz awards than most jazz itself started out as dancing music. Even as journalists can name, is also a drummer. jazz evolved into America’s Classical Music, So, the rhythmic pulse of the Flamenco/ jazz collaboration should be especially that dancing beat pulses on. While traveling in Mexico, jazz vocalist intriguing. Specifically, Flamenco-inspired jazz goes Judi Silvano met the partners in Dueto Andaluz: the guitarist, composer, and back to the 1950’s, with Miles Davis’ more

developing its contemporary form during the last half of the fifteenth century in Andalusia, the Mediterranean southern region of Spain that has been a polyglot ethnic and cultural stew since the time of the ancient Greeks. The roots of Flamenco music and dance may lie with the Flemish northern European soldiers sent by the Spanish Emperor to Andalusia, the local Andalusian population, the Arab conquerors who ruled Spain for centuries before being expelled Dueto Andaluz: Daniel Pimental & Natalia Loza by Spanish troops, or Roma (Gypsy) than iconic 1959-60 album Sketches of immigrants. Or some combination of all of Spain being the most prominent. Successive the above. We do know that Roma were and generations of jazz musicians dipped into are prominent in the genre, consistent with the Flamenco well. Lovano’s and Silvano’s persecuted ethnic minorities pursuing music dip promises to be one of the most enticing. as one of the limited opportunities permitted Not least because Silvano inhabits both by the majority. Which quite parallels the the jazz and contemporary classical music social origins of jazz. worlds and has a unique capacity to pull in Flamenco music kicked off a new stage of elements from intertwined jazz, classical development in Andalusia during the midand Flamenco Revival worlds. nineteenth century, with cafés cantantes Underline the word revival in that (singing cabarets) spreading throughout Flamenco Revival term. Although Flamenco Andalusia’s cities and small towns. is the Spanish music genre most known Enthusiasm wound down from the 1920’s across the globe, there is no agreement on through the 1940’s, then regained full steam exactly who originated Flamenco, where during the 1950’s. American jazz musicians it originated, or even on the extent of its picked up on Flamenco’s revival, and multitudinous present-day sub-genres. continue reshaping Flamenco/jazz links. There is consensus that Flamenco started For information: 845-236-7970.

Music on Market: Greg Dinger Greg Dinger, perhaps the Hudson Valley’s leading classical guitarist, will present a recital called Musical Pairs for the Classical Guitar, a program of “double pieces” - music composed as a twomovement work (by Agustin Barrios, Antonio Ruiz-Pipo, Fernando Sor), or intended to be played as a pair of pieces by the composer (Santiago de Murcia, Domenico Scarlatti), or chosen by Dinger as an effective 2-piece unit (Michael Praetorius, Francis Poulenc, Albert Roussel). The stylistic periods covered by the program include Renaissance music (Praetorius), baroque (Murcia, Scarlatti), classic/romantic (Sor), 20th century (Poulenc, Roussel), neo-renaissance (RuizPipo) and neo-baroque (Barrios). In his printed collection of guitar music, Santiago de Murcia describes himself as Master of Guitar to the Spanish Queen Maria Luisa of Savoy. She was the first wife of the first Bourbon king of Spain, Philip (Felipe) V, a grandson of Louis XIV of France who succeeded to the Spanish throne on the death of Carlos II in November 1700. Dinger, a former student of Luis Garcia-

Renart, is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. He teaches guitar at SUNY Ulster, SUNY New Paltz, Bard, M.I.S.U. and privately in Woodstock. He has concertized as a soloist and with ensembles and orchestras in the Hudson Valley, including performing with the Arabesque Trio, SAGAD Trio, Catskill Mt. Renaissance Consort, Cantilena, Ars Choralis and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and various singers and instrumentalists. In January 2018 he performed Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. For many years he hosted WDST’s Sunrise Concert and he also plays in musical theatre productions (Honky Tonk Laundry recently at Shadowland Stages, Ellenville) and in two rock bands (Fishbowl and The West Saugerties Boys). Dinger gives the ninth concert in the Music on Market multi-genre concert series in St. John’s Episcopal Church, 40 Market Street, Ellenville on September 6 at 7:30pm. Visit gregdingerguitar.com for more. For information about Music on Market, call 845-377-3727. September 2018

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The Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra Begins New Season The Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra (SCCO) begins its 2018-19 season with performances of Songs Without Words. The program embodies the lyrical and dramatic abilities of the composers programmed. Rossini is to opera as bagels are to Monticello; iconic, masterful, and full of delicious moments (fun fact: Rossini himself was a culinary expert). SCCO orchestra manager Akiko Hosoi’s arrangement of his Overture to Barber of Seville will provide a fresh taste to this iconic master work. “I do quite a bit of arranging for SCCO,” explained Hosoi (who is also concertmaster of the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra), “and I like it because it’s fun for me to listen to a piece and think, “hmm, how can I make it sound like this, with the instruments we have?” “SCCO is mostly a strings-only ensemble (though recently we’ve been including winds here and there) and sometimes our repertoire can be limiting, or we just want an extra character piece that is written for instruments we don’t have. Sometimes it’s a french horn part that would sound great on a viola, or sometimes it’s a whole wind section solo that could be played by the solo principals, and the fun challenge is to arrange it in a way that works for our instrumentation, while maintaining the character and integrity of

the original composition. “I actually also do a lot of arranging for students for Nesin Cultural Arts, and others, and that’s a fun challenge for different reasons,” Hosoi added. “In this case for the Rossini Barber of Seville Overture arrangement, we’re happy to be joined by Andrew Verdino (clarinetist who played the Carnival of the Animals with us in June) to add a little extra layer of sound texture, and to get us excited for the Mozart Clarinet Concerto to follow. We are having a flute player (TBA) join for the Rossini as well. “After the above aural appetizer, the orchestra will continue with Mozart’s delightful Clarinet Concerto in A Major. The featured soloist of the evening is Anton Rist, principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Prior to Anton’s appointment to the Met he served as principal clarinet of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra as well as the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and performed with American Ballet Theater, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Louisiana Philharmonic, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Felix Mendelssohn wrote twelve string symphonies between 1821 and 1823, when he was between 12 and 14 years old. During his life he indicated that he did not want any of his youthful works published. Happily,

Celebrating Adrienne Butvinik (1952-2018) Adrienne Butvinik (1952-2018)wasanartist, educator, adventurer, and activist. Her spirit and love that she shared is deeply missed by all that knew her. A Fine Arts Scholarship has recently been created for Minisink Valley High School in her honor so that her legacy will go on in the field of fine arts. A Celebration of Life event honoring Adrienne will be held on September 29 from

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1:00pm-4:00pm in the Mount Hope Town Park, 356 Finchville Turnpike, Otisville, with live music, an opportunity for tributes, raffles of Adrienne’s Catmaid wearable art, a 50/50, and food for purchase. This is a family friendly event and will take place rain or shine. All proceeds will benefit the Adrienne M. Butvinik Fine Arts Scholarship.

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this was not to be, and we can see, as we do with Mozart, the remarkably high level of a youthful talent. Mendelssohn’s String Sinfonia No. 8 will conclude the program. This poet, painter, pianist, and composer has a unique ability to bring out the lyrical mastery of every A. Trombley A. Hosoi A. Rist performer and every instrument that will send the audience into the silent movie Pre-Concert Discussion: September 12 theater that is their imagination. Anton Rist will join Sullivan County Performances will be on September 15, Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director at 7:00pm at Eugene D. Nesin Theatre, 22 Andrew Trombley and Akiko Hosoi St. John Street, Monticello, and September in a free special event at the Ethelbert 16 at 3:00pm at the White Lake Reformed B. Crawford Library, 479 Broadway, Presbyterian Church, Route 17B, Madison Monticello, on September 12 at 6:00pm. Road, White Lake. The trio will discuss the theme surrounding Tickets may be purchased online or at the the program as well as the unique features door. Visit www.nesinculturalarts.org or call and abilities of the instruments involved. 845-798-9006 for further information. To register: 845-794-4660.

Final Exhibit by Wallkill River School Founder, Dell Joyce The Wallkill River School (WRS) announced the retirement of its founder and Executive Director, Shawn Dell Joyce who spent twenty years building the organization and cultural tourism in Orange County. A retrospective of Joyce’s work created during the past 20 years will be featured in the four galleries at WRS throughout September. A reception will be held on September 8, from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the WRS, 232 Ward Street, Montgomery. “Her works range from scandalous to scrumptious,” states Gallery Director Liam Vogel. “We are featuring 20 years worth of her work - local landscapes, historic sites, figurative works, symbolic self portraits, and still lifes from workshops and studio works featuring produce and women’s studies. She will exhibit works from her scandalous series, She Nourishes which was censored from Stewart Airport in 2001, to scrumptious still lifes of heirloom vegetables that benefited the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture.” All works are on sale for one price: $250. Joyce is taking the proceeds from the show to fund an IRA since there is no retirement plan for a nonprofit founder. Joyce will have patrons purchase a red dot at the desk for $250 which they can then use to claim any work

in the galleries for their own, as long as they agree to let Joyce borrow it back for a future exhibit. Works on display range in value from $500 for framed still lifes to $5000 for life-sized figurative diptychs showing female archetypes. “This is a great opportunity to get an original work by a seminal Orange County artist at the cusp of her career,” says Vogel. “The return on your investment will be phenomenal, and will secure a future for our founder.” Vogel notes that her works are normally priced much higher, but to avoid devaluing them, the collector is making a contribution which pays for a “dot” and doesn’t bring the value of the artwork down to $250, just the price. The WRS is hosting a retirement party for Joyce on September 29, from 5:00-7:00pm. This event will coincide with the closing of the exhibit, and Joyce will make a major announcement. She is planning on relocating, and will announce the details at the event. “This is part of a secession plan instituted four years ago,” notes Joyce, who developed a five year transition so the nonprofit WRS would continue without its original founder and artists. Joyce

realized that the nonprofit would soon need stronger fiscal management and an executive director that can take it to the next level. The nonprofit remains strong in its tenth year in the historic Patchett House and recently announced a capital campaign to purchase the Patchett House for a forever home. Joyce was instrumental in hiring and training Sarah Pierson as the new executive director, and will continue to assist Pierson as a fund raiser and grant writer. “It’s time to pursue my professional career as an artist,” said Joyce, who is now focusing on teaching fine art workshops around the country, exhibiting nationally, and competing in plein air events. Joyce has left an indelible mark on Orange County through her artwork and activism with the WRS, but also through writing a weekly column in the Times Herald Record and Times community newspapers, volunteering to teach children about historic figure Jane Colden, authoring a local foods cookbook, and developing cultural tourism through arts and agricultural partnerships. For information: 845-457-ARTS.

Honoring Elaine

The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) and its Board of Directors invites you to join them on September 8 at 3:00pm, for the dedication ceremony of their 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg building. In recognition of DVAA’s co-founder/ executive director for over four decades, and her remarkable contributions to our community and her longstanding support of the arts and artists, DVAA’s building will be renamed the Elaine Giguere Arts Center. The celebration will also include the dedication of naming plates on DVAA’s first and second-floor porch columns and be followed by a reception and live music. Free and open to the public. Email info@delawarevalleyartsalliance.org to RSVP with “RSVP Building Dedication” in the title. RSVP deadline: September 5.

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Shop for Produce & Art, Washingtonville Established in 2018 napkins because they are in Washingtonville, the an inexpensive way to add Flynn Family Farm, run color on your table and in by Erin and Joseph Flynn your home,” said Erin. and their two daughters, There are several local is a backyard/urban farm artists displaying at the offering homemade baked Farmers & Artisans Market goods, seasonal veggies, of Washingtonville along eggs, fresh cut flowers, with local farmers. “It’s a and...fine art and crafts! great place to buy not only “Introspection” by Erin Flynn Erin graduated from the University of local produce, meat, eggs, flowers, and hay, Vermont in 1998 with a BA in fine art. but original artwork and handmade gifts “Along with baked goods, I sell handmade and pick up a copy of CANVAS!” cotton napkins and artwork at the Farmers Erin takes custom orders during the week. & Artisans Market of Washingtonville Call or text her at 201-787-2282. “Yes, I’m every Sunday from 10:00am-2:00pm, from Jersey and haven’t changed my number through October 28. I want to create items since we moved here ten years ago. What that are affordable so anyone can own an can I say...I’m attached,” quipped Erin. original piece of artwork, and I love the FB & Instagram: @theflynnfamilyfarm

Photograph Exhibit at Desmond Campus Richard Spisto has been The light is really a in the field of architectural “moment” of time. In his design and construction for constant search for that over 40 years. He describes “moment of light” some shots himself as an “instinctive have taken from months to designer” and considers years for a particular scene to building design and the arts present itself. strongly connected through Richard began showing the creative process. Seeing his work in 2013 in Hudson “everything as design” he is Valley galleries and juried eclectic in his approach and shows. “I cannot think of a Work by Richard Spisto views many styles of art and better way to celebrate the design as valid. constantly changing beauty of the earth and Being an avid photographer for most of his sky we live with.” adult life with a constant eye for style, form Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond and color, he is eternally aware of every scene Campus Gallery will present the photography that passes his eye. Rarely planning a shot, he of Richard Spisto through October 26. Meet will take advantage of what presents itself on the artist at the reception on September 23 a daily basis. “My photos are dependent upon from 1:00pm-3:00pm at Desmond Campus, the light or lack of it that create a moment of 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh. beauty or drama or design.” For information, call 845-565-2076.

Canvas, Pottery, 3-D & More, Highland Mills Beacon Place LLC is a full service agency in Highland Mills specializing in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) support services. One component, among the many they offer as part of their Structured Day Program, is Art Therapy. The Woodbury Public Library’s Rushmore “Colors of Autumn” Montage art by Beacon Place artists Memorial Branch in by Joseph C. Highland Mills will showcase the works of 2:00pm. Beacon Place staff members will the artists of Beacon Place throughout the also be on hand to answer questions and month of September. Eleven artists have provide information concerning the center’s contributed works for this show. Artworks services. Light refreshments will be served. range in mediums from canvas and pottery If you are unable to attend the reception, to three-dimensional pieces. visit the Library, 16 Route 105, Highland The artists will be in attendance to talk Mills, any time during September to view about their individual works during the artist the month-long exhibit! reception on September 1, from 12:00pmFor information: 845-928-6162. 12

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Lectures - Demos - Talks

sponsored by SUNY Orange and Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC �� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry SUNYO-KH ��SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh Lectures, Demos, & Talks are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE)

lectures - TOURS - Conferences Hurleyville Maker’s Lab TOUR �� Hurleyville Makers Lab, Tuesdays, 6pm & Thursdays, 9am “The History of the Model “A”” Joseph Valentine ��MSM-DC Sep 4, 5:30pm FEE “Data Breaches Before the Internet and the Case of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cuban Missile Crisis” David V. Gloe MSM-DC Sep 6, 6:30pm FEE 1Future FORUM �� Hurleyville Arts Centre, Sep 7-9 Geology HIKE �� PEEC Sep 8, 1pm FEE “Neversink History Afternoon” John Conway ��Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Sep 9, 1pm Safe Harbors Informational TOUR ��Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Sep 11, 9am “Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?” Lawrence Burg ��MSM-DC Sep 11, 1pm FEE “The Four Dutch Governors of New Netherland (1625-1664)” Leon DiMartino �� MSM-DC Sep 12, 10am FEE “Cocktails Across America” Diane Lapis & Anne Peck-Davis ��MSM-DC Sep 12, 12:30pm FEE “D&H Amusement Parks” Steve Skye �� D&H Canal Park, Cuddebackville, Sep 12, 7pm FEE “Talking Walls” Matt Bua ��MSM-DC Sep 13, 1pm FEE “Healthy Bee, Healthy Me” Megan Denver ��MSM-DC Sep 13, 2:30pm FEE “I’m Getting Older Now…So?” George Toth & Diana Underwood �� MSM-DC Sep 14, 10am FEE “Staging Tips for Selling Your Home” Claudia Jacobs �� MSM-DC Sep 14, 10am FEE “What’s Old is New: The Erie Railroad and the Graham Line” Bob McCue ��MSM-DC Sep 14, 1pm FEE “Nature at Night” �� PEEC Sep 15, 7pm FEE “The Truth about Protein” Toni-Jean Kulpinski ��MSM-DC Sep 17, 1pm FEE “Rip Van Winkle” Vernon Benjamin ��MSM-DC Sep 18, 1pm FEE “Fall Hikes for All Ages” Don Weise ��MSM-DC Sep 18, 6:30pm FEE “The Spiritual Origins of the Alphabet” Nathan Rosenblum ��MSM-DC Sep 19, 2pm FEE “Bloodiest Day: The Legacy of Antietam” David Topps �� MSM-DC Sep 20, 10am FEE “Exploring the Shawangunks-A Visual Odyssey” Nora Scarlett ��MSM-DC Sep 20, 1pm FEE “The Feminine Second Spring-Evolving with Grace, Vitality, & Beauty through Perimenopause & Menopause” Lorraine Hughes MSM-DC Sep 22, 10am FEE “Awaken Your Creative Genius” Cary Bayer �� MSM-DC Sep 24, 10am FEE “The US Constitution Celebration: The First Amendment to the Constitution” �� Lynn Muills Eckert SUNYO-KH Sep 25, 6pm “West Point’s Landscape, 1802-1830” Jon Malinowski ��MSM-DC Sep 25, 6:30pm FEE “30,000 Days-Living a Life of Meaning & Purpose” Joan Monk ��MSM-DC Sep 26, 1pm FEE “Climate change: latest data on the mid-Hudson region and NYC” William Makofske �� Hudson Valley Science Cafe, Flaming Grill & Buffet, Newburgh, Sep 26, 7:15pm FEE “The Truth about what is Happening in Israel on Terrorism, Palestinians & Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran and more” Chen Rahamim Temple Sinai, Florida, Sep 27, lunch:12:30pm, talk:1pm “Holistic Eye Care” Dr. Marc Grossman �� MSM-DC Sep 28, 11am FEE “Operation Crossroads: Testing the effects of the Atomic Bomb on naval vessels” �� Gene Weinstein John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Sep 29, 5pm “Fungus Among Us” ��PEEC Sep 30, 10am FEE Master Classes Jason Miles & Rave Tesar jazz, etc., Music for Humanity ��Arrow Park, Monroe, Sep 30, 4pm Artist Talks & DEMOS Joan Giordano “Overview (1993-2018)” ��CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Sep 1, 4pm Andrew Trombley, Akiko Hosoi, Anton Rist Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra program �� Crawford Library, Sep 12, 6pm

Neversink History Day w/John Conway

early 20th century, and the Neversink History owner of the best equipped Afternoon will be held on photography studio between September 9 from 1:00pmNew York City and Buffalo 4:00pm at the Time and the at 2:00pm. Valleys Museum, Route 55, An adventurer who owned Grahamsville. one of the first automobiles The Museum’s collection in Sullivan County and of historical records, Neversink early settlers photographs, books and artifacts will be loved to fly airplanes, Hillig became a pioneer available to visitors, bringing to life the history of aerial photography and documented and of the Town of Neversink. The afternoon preserved in photographs much of Sullivan includes the unveiling of a special artifact just County’s early 20th century history. Anyone interested in learning more about received by the Museum - a hand woven blue the history of the Town of Neversink or has and white coverlet from Old Neversink. John Conway, Sullivan County Historian historical items or photographs to share, is will give a talk on Otto Hillig, the Liberty encouraged to attend. Admission is FREE and resident who became the most famous includes admission to the Museum’s three photographer in Sullivan County in the floors of exhibitions. Call 845-985-7700. 14

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Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock, etc. sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill and Al’s Music Center, Port Jervis CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times

Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Music for Humanity folk ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm FREE Rachel Berkman & Common Ground ��Pennings Farm, Warwick, Aug 31, 6pm-9pm Somerville Brothers Band �� Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Sep 1, 8pm Wray Band �� Pennings Farm Market, Warwick, Sep 1 8pm-12am Owlbrook punk �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 1, 8pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis swing, blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 2 & 16, 11am Deep Purple & Judas Priest w/The Temperance Movement ��Bethel Woods, Sep 2, 7pm Billy Martin’s Solo & Percussion Ensemble ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 2, 8pm Alyssa Goldstein �� Pennings Farm Market, Warwick, Sep 3, 3pm-6pm Common Tongue fusion ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 5, 8pm Andy Stack’s American Soup �� The Falcon Underground , Marlboro, Sep 6, 8pm Bethany & Rufus w/Bonga Jean-Baptiste, Talking Fire ��Hurleyville Arts Centre, Sep 7, 8pm Joanna Teters neo soul ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 7, 8pm Crawdaddy r&b, blues �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 7, 8pm The Funk Junkies �� The Falcon Outdoor Stage, Sep 7, 8pm Stereo Mikes �� Pennings Farm Market, Warwick, Sep 7, 8pm-11pm Young Dubliners Celtic rock �� Milford Theatre, Sep 8, 7:30pm Slam Allen �� Forestburgh Tavern, Sep 8, 8pm Blend �� Pennings Farm Market, Warwick, Sep 8, 8pm-12am Willa & Co. blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 9, 11am Hudson Valley Swing Band ��Wallkill Community Center, Middletown, Sep 11, 18, 25, 1pm FREE Myles Mancuso Unplugged blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 12, 8pm Latin Jazz Express Puente ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 13, 8pm Adam Falcon soul, blues �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 13, 8pm James Caleo Trio �� Pennings Cidery, Warwick, Sep 14, 7pm-10pm Scott Sharrard ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 14, 8pm Fred Zepplin rock �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 14, 8pm Ayanna Martine folk-rock, Chai on Music Jewish �� Phillipsport Community Center, Sep 15, 7pm John Tropea Band funk, soul, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 15, 8pm Bethany & Rufus neo-folk �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 15, 8pm “Off The Clef” barbershop �� Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey, Sep 16, 3pm Myles Mancuso Band rock, soul ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 19, 8pm Eric Banger & the Mashers Irish, Music on Market series �� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, Sep 20, 7:30pm Tom “The Suit” Forst blues, rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 20, 8pm Quave 7 �� Pennings Cidery, Warwick, Sep 21, 7pm-10pm JB’s Go-Go Boogaloo Dance Party �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 21, 8pm Richard Barone 1960s �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 22, 8pm Uncommon Ground roots bluegrass, blues, jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 23, 11am Poet Gold’s POELODIES spoken word, hip hop �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 26, 7pm Jamie Saft’s NEW ZION TRIO dub, trance, roots reggae ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 26, 8pm Tribal Harmony: Mamalama & Andes Manta world, Andean ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 27, 7pm Ian Flanigan & Scot Moore neo Americana �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 28, 8pm Another Time �� Pennings Farm Market, Warwick, Sep 30, 3pm-6pm Hot Tuna Jack Casady & Jorma Kaukonen, r&r ��Bethel Woods, Sep 30, 8pm OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano �� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Joanna Gass and the Search & Rescue Orchestra ��Brew, Rock Hill, Tuesdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm Robert Kopec & Solo Bajo jazz + ��Dos Amigos, Fair Oaks, Wednesdays, 7pm Open Mic ��Heartbeat Music Hall, Grahamsville, Wednesdays, 7pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic �� Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Albi Beluli �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm Jason Rosen soul �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Fridays, 7:30pm Marc Von Em soul, blues, funk �� WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, Last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals �Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Barry Sheinfeld’s Jazz Cats ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 1pm Songwriter Sessions �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 5, 7pm Roots & Blues Sessions host: Petey Hop �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 19, 7pm

Learn, Create, Share, Act!

1Future Forum is the inaugural gathering of thought leaders and cultural programming to celebrate innovation and disruption. The event is an opportunity to engage social and environmental issues important to local residents and around the globe while discovering regional and global artists. The forum will build inclusive relationships and sustainable development across race, gender and disability lines. Producing partners include Hurleyville

Arts Centre, The Center for Discovery, Disruptor Foundation, 1Future, Hosh Yoga and Hosh Kids, and 5Rhythms. This first annual event runs September 7-9 at the Hurleyville Arts Centre, 12 Railroad Avenue, Hurleyville, with dance performances, music, meals, yoga, nature walks, discussions, art, conversations, film, and a Survivor Tree planting ceremony. Local participants are free, use promo code: 1FutureLocal Visit www.hurleyvilleartscentre.org

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Art Walks

Highland Falls Art Walk �� Main Street, Highland Falls, thru Oct 28 Newburgh Last Saturdays �� Newburgh, Sep 29, 4pm-8pm

Cinema

“Of Mice and Men” (1992) Gary Sinise, John Malkovich” �Wisner Library, Warwick, Sep 10, 1pm FREE “The Art & Times of Frosty Myers” Big Eddy Film Fest �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Sep 14. 8pm Big Eddy Film Fest �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Sep 15, 11am-10pm Big Eddy Film Fest �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Sep 16, 11am-6pm “Fahrenheit 451” Julie Christie, Oskar Werner ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Sep 17, 1pm FREE “Exit Through the Gift Shop” ��Bethel Woods, Sep 21, 7:30pm “The Scarlet Letter”Gary Oldman, Demi Moore ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Sep 24, 1pm FREE “I Want to Live” Susan Hayward �� MSM Desmond Campus, Newburgh, Sep 25, 9:30am “To Kill a Mockingbird” w/guest:Mary Badham �� Milford Theatre, Sep 28, TBA Manhattan Short Film Festival ��SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, Sep 29, 7pm

Cabaret

Delaware Valley Opera Cabaret & Dinner ��Western Inn, Callicoon, Sep 1, 7pm The Slipper Room burlesque ��NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Sep 15, 8pm “Drag Me To The Top” w/Paige Turner �� Forestburgh Tavern, Sep 22, 8pm

Comedy

Steve Martin and Martin Short �� Bethel Woods, Sep 1, 8pm

Fairs & Festivals

Rosehaven Alpaca Festival ��Bethel Woods, Sep 2, 11am-4pm Onion Festival �� PLAV Pavilion, Pine Island, Sep 2, 2pm General Montgomery Day ��Downtown Montgomery, Sep 8, 7:30am-9:00pm Harvest Festival ��Bethel Woods, Sep 9, 16, 23, 30, 11am-4pm Big Eddy Film Fest �� Narrowsburg, Sep 14-16 Moon Festival ��New Century Film, Huguenot, Sep 15, 11am-9pm FREE Florida Public Library’s 60th Anniversary Weekend. ��Florida Library, Sep 28-30 Milford Reader’s & Writer’s Festival �� Milford, Sep 28-30 In the MKNG™ - The Creativity Festival ��Bethel Woods, Sep 29-30, 10am

Fundraisers

Triversity Center Virago (band) & buffet dinner ��Best Western, Matamoras, Sep 7, 8pm Adrienne M. Butvinik Fine Arts Scholarship ��Mt. Hope Town Park, Otisville, Sep 29, 1pm-4pm

Holistic - Spiritual

Journey Into Self-Awareness self-inquiry, meditation �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Sundays, 10:30am “Beatles Yoga” w/Cary Bayer �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Sep 10, 10am

Music - BaND

West Point Band Labor Day Celebration Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point, Sep 1, 7:30pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ��Town of Crawford Park, Pine Bush, Sep 9, 2pm FREE

Music - Classical

Charles Mokotoff guitar ��Pacem in Terris, Warwick, Aug 26, 5pm Greg Dinger guitar, Music on Market series �St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellenville, Sep 6, 7:30pm Serenade Quartet w/Dan Haskins percussion ��Pacem in Terris, Warwick, Sep 9, 5pm Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra ��Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Sep 15, 7pm & Reformed Presbyterian Church, White Lake, Sep 16, 3pm Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Montgomery Senior Center, Sep 23, 3pm FREE

Music - jazz

Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Eric Person Band ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Saturdays, 9pm Sheila Jordan, Alan Broadbent, Harvie S. ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 9, 8pm Jazz Sessions Host: Doug Weiss �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 12, 7pm Skye Jazz Trio ��Iron Forge Inn, Warwick, Sep 16, Noon-3pm Greg Glassman Quartet ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 16, 8pm bigBANG �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Sep 20, 8pm Joe Lovano & Judi Silvano, Dueto Andaluz “Jazz Meets Flamenco” ��The Falcon, Sep 22, 8pm Michael Sarian & The Chabones ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 23, 8pm Saints of Swing swing, klezmer, + ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 30, 11am James Emery & Tony Marino jazz & American Songbook �� Florida Library, Sep 30, 1pm FREE Jason Miles & Rave Tesar concert & talk, Music for Humanity Arrow Park, Monroe, Sep 30, 2pm David Bixler Quintet ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 30, 8pm

Opera

Delaware Valley Opera Cabaret & Dinner ��Western Inn, Callicoon, Sep 1, 7pm

Poetry Readings

Milkweed Poetry �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 7pm Frank Boyer ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Sep 6, 7pm

Robert Phelps �� Elsie’s Luncheonette, Goshen, Sep 7, 7pm Hudson River Poets �� Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Sep 8, 1pm FREE Oliver Grech �� Montgomery Book Exchange, Sep 11, 7pm FREE Steve Dalachinksy, Yuko Otomo MEGAPHONE series �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Sep 16, 2pm Bill Greenfield, Sonia Greenfield ��Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Sep 19, 6:30pm FREE Liberty Poetry Festival ��Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Sep 22, 2pm Dennis Bressack, Justin Bressack �� Goshen Methodist Church, Sep 24, 7pm FREE Hudson River Poets �� Newburgh Library, Sep 27, 7pm FREE Sonia Lynch ��Jones Farm, Cornwall, Sep 28, 7pm

recreation

Salsa Dancing �� Hurleyville Arts Centre, Fridays, 7:30pm

Storytelling

Pechakucha Night �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, Sep 8, 8pm Mary Lewis Garden Designer, DYLWYD series �� Pennings Farm Cidery, Warwick, Sep 12, 6pm Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “South of the Border” ��Florida Library, Sep 13, 6:30pm FREE Black Dirt Storytelling Festival ��Seward Senior Center , Florida, Sep 22, 2pm FREE

Theatre - Musical

“The Last Five Years” Jason Robert Brown �� Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 28-Sep 2 “The Addams Family” Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players ��Playhouse at Museum Village, Sep 8-23

Theatre - Play

“Bang Bang!” by John Cleese ��Shadowland Stages, thru Sep 9 “Gidion’s Knot” by Johnna Adams, dir:Paul Austin �� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Sep 6-9 “The Game’s Afoot” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop � Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, Sep 7-16 “Orwell in America” by Joe Sutton, Cornerstone Theatre Arts ��Goshen Music Hall, Sep 8-23 “The Mystery of Love and Sex” by Bathsheba Doran ��Shadowland Stages, Sep 14-30 “Heroines” by Brian C.Petti, Cornerstone Theatre Arts ��Goshen Music Hall, Sep 29-Oct 7

Schools & Conservatories RitzKids Theatre Arts Performance �� Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Aug 30, 6pm “Gidion’s Knot” by Johnna Adams, dir:Paul Austin �� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Sep 6-9

George Orwell: Anti-Communist BUT Socialist In the first years after World War II the author of Animal Farm is chaperoned during an American book tour by a fetching young woman, whose job is to dissuade Orwell from telling Americans why he is a proud socialist. “The play itself is a rather slight dramatic vehicle designed to bring Orwell to us, tracing a fictionalized relationship between him and a Al Snider Jess Beveridge young female publicist assigned to Bruce Gluckman guide him on a (fictional) American speaking War was such a critical cause for intellectual tour for his new book, the now iconic anti- activists of the time, how deep and lasting Stalinist allegory Animal Farm. We don’t were the privations of post-war Europe learn much more about Orwell’s life than including Great Britain - and why the political is commonly known - the pseudonym, the landscape there evolved so differently than memorable arguments for avoiding cliches in the U.S.” Plays-to-see.com Sutton’s plays include Voir Dire in writing and thought, that perhaps his best work is actually the less familiar Down and (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the Out in Paris and London, the vivid memoir Best Play Award of the American Theatre Critics Association). of his adventures among the impoverished. Orwell in America by Joe Sutton is being “Playwright Sutton slips us in and out of seeing the pair preparing for the talks and presented by Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Orwell actually delivering them. The central September 8-23 in the Goshen Music Hall, conflict is about his drive to explain to his 2nd floor walk-up, 223 Main Street. Bruce Cold War American audiences why he, their Gluckman directs this highly engaging favorite anti-Communist literary champion, production. Featured performers are Al is paradoxically a committed socialist, Snider and Jess Beveridge. Jaqueline Dion against the protestations of the otherwise designs lights and sound. Admission is free. Suggested donation admiring publicist who argues for a lighter is $10. Sponsored by The Goshen Public touch on the lefty stuff.” “Along the way, we get sensitively Library & Historical Society. Reservations required: 845-294-4188. rendered insights into why the Spanish Civil September 2018

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

AMITY ��Amity Gallery, Warwick BESTW ��Best Western Inn, Matamoras BW �� Bethel Woods Center for the Arts CAS ��CAS Arts Center, Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor CTMW Creative Theater-Muddy Water Players ��Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe DCAT �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel DOWNING ��Downing Film Center, Newburgh

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Septemb

FAL & FAL-U �� The Falcon & The Falcon Underground, Marlboro FP ��Forestburgh Playhouse FT �� Forestburgh Tavern GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series �� Senior Center, Montgomery GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Goshen Music Hall GWL ��Greenwood Lake Library HAC �� Hurleyville Arts Centre

WEDNESDAY

LMAC �� Liberty Museum LUMB �� Lumberland Town H MILKWEED �� Milkweed Galle MoM Music on Market series ��St. John’s Episcopal Ch MONTBK �� Montgomery B MSM-AQ �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas H MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Cam

THURSDAY

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm Music-Fusion Common Tongue FAL 8pm

Please check the schedule for Art & Photography Exhibit Receptions, pg. 18

Poetry................................Frank Boyer............................. NOBL 7pm Music - Classical.......... Greg Dinger guitar ................... MoM 7:30pm Theatre - Play.................. “Bang Bang!” ........................... SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play.................“Gidion’s Knot”..........................SCCC 8pm Music.................. Andy Stack’s American Soup .............FAL-U 8pm

Music Alyssa Goldstein PENN 6pm

10 Cinema “Of Mice and Men” (1992) Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

“Habitual Repetition” by Charles Desmone “A Small Matter” Group Exhibit Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh thru Oct 20

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm Poetry Oliver Grech MONTBK, 7pm

Poetry..............Robe Music.....Talking Fire, B Theatre - Play.......... Theatre - Play.......... Theatre - Play.......... Music - Dinner........V Music - Neo-Soul.... Music....................... Music.......................

Steve Martin & Martin Short Bethel Woods, Sep. 1, 8pm

Storytelling Mary Lewis Pennings Farm Cidery, Warwick 6pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm Music - Blues Myles Mancuso Unplugged FAL 8pm

Music....................... Theatre - Play.......... Theatre - Musical.... Storytelling.........Black Dirt Storytelling Guild.....Florida Library, 6:30pm Theatre - Play.......“T Music -Puente............. Latin Jazz Express ...........................FAL 8pm Theatre - Play.......... Music - Soul-Blues........... Adam Falcon ..........................FAL-U 8pm Cinema........... “The Music....................... Music - Rock............

Music - Jazz Jazz Sessions FAL-U 8pm

17 Cinema “Fahrenheit 451” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

18 Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Poetry Bill Greenfield, Sonia Greenfield Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, 6:30pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm

Music....................... Music - Irish.......... Eric Banger & the Mashers ............ MoM 7:30pm Theatre - Play.......... Theatre - Play.......“The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 8pm Cinema................“E Theatre - Musical.......“The Addams Family” ...................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Musical.... Music - Jazz-Fusion.Thunderhead Organ Trio.Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm Theatre - Play.......“T Music - Blues-Rock-Grit.......Tom “The Suit” Forst................FAL 8pm Music..............JB’s Music - Jazz......................... bigBANG................................FAL-U 8pm

Music - Rock-Soul Myles Mancuso Band FAL 8pm

Cinema “The Scarlett Letter” (1995) Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Poetry Dennis Bressack, Justin Bressack Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

25 Cinema “I Want to Live” MSM-DC 9:30am Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

September 2018

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm Spoken Word Hip Hop POELODIES FAL-U 7pm

Music - Roots-Reggae Jamie Saft’s NEW ZION TRIO FAL 8pm

Poetry...................... Theatre - Play.......“The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 8pm Cinema.................... Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Theatre - Play.......“T Music - World...Tribal Harmony: Mamalama & Andes Manta.. FAL 8pm Music - Americana.

ber 2018

m & Arts Center Hall, Glen Spey ery, Sugar Loaf hurch, Ellenville Book Exchange Hall, Newburgh mpus, Balmville

NACL ��NACL Theatre, Highland Lake NESIN ��Eugene D. Nesin Theatre, Monticello NFL ��Newburgh Free Library NOBL ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall PACEM �� Pacem In Terris, Warwick PARA �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown PENN �� Pennings Farm Market, Warwick

FRIDAY

PENN-C �� Pennings Cidery, Warwick PHILL ��Phillipsport Community Center RITZ �� Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh RIV �� Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg SCCC �� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake SCM ��Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville SHAD �� Shadowland Stages, Ellenville

SATURDAY

Festival......................Harvest Festival ................. BW 11am-4pm Opera.Delaware Valley Opera Cabaret.Western Inn, Callicoon, 7pm Music............................. West Point Band............... TROPHY 7:30pm Music..................... Somerville Brothers Band................. DCAT 8pm Theatre - Play.................. “Bang Bang!” ...........................SHAD 8pm Theatre - Musical.......“The Last Five Years” ......................... FP 8pm Comedy............... Steve Martin & Martin Short.................... BW 8pm Music.................................. Wray Band .............................PENN 8pm ert Phelps.....Elsie’s Luncheonette, Goshen, 7pm Music - Punk........................ Owlbrook .............................FAL-U 8pm Bethany & Rufus w/Bonga Jean-Baptiste.... HAC 8pm Cabaret.................... “Forever Forestburgh”...................FT 10:30pm ......... “Bang Bang!” ...........................SHAD 8pm .... “The Game’s Afoot” ..........................RIV 8pm Festival.............General Montgomery Day ........7:30am-9:00pm ........“Gidion’s Knot”..........................SCCC 8pm Festival.....................Harvest Festival ................. BW 11am-4pm Virago Triversity Fundraiser...........BESTW 8pm Poetry.......Hudson River Poets...Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, 1pm .......... Joanna Teters................................FAL 8pm Theatre - Play............. “Orwell in America” ..................... GOSH 7pm ...... The Funk Junkies ..........FAL Outdoors, 8pm Music - Celtic-Rock...........Young Dubliners ..Milford Theatre, 7:30pm .......... Stereo Mikes ............................ PENN 8pm Music...................................... Blend...................................PENN 8pm Theatre - Musical.......“The Addams Family” ...................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play.................. “Bang Bang!” ...........................SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play............. “The Game’s Afoot” ..........................RIV 8pm Theatre - Play.................“Gidion’s Knot”..........................SCCC 8pm Music.................................. Slam Allen ...................................FT 8pm Storytelling....................Pechakucha NIght ...................... AMITY 8pm Music - r&b-Blues...............Crawdaddy ............................FAL-U 8pm

.......James Caleo Trio .................... PENN-C 7pm .... “Orwell in America” ..................... GOSH 7pm ....“The Addams Family” ...................CTMW 8pm The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 8pm .... “The Game’s Afoot” ..........................RIV 8pm e Art & Times of Frosty Myers” ..........TUST 8pm .........Scott Sharrard ..............................FAL 8pm ...........Fred Zepplin ...........................FAL-U 8pm

................Quave.............................. PENN-C 7pm .... “Orwell in America” ..................... GOSH 7pm Exit Through the Gift Shop” ............ BW 7:30pm ....“The Addams Family” ...................CTMW 8pm The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 8pm Go-Go Boogaloo Dance Party ........FAL-U 8pm

.........Sonia Lynch.....Jones Farm, Cornwall, 7pm . “To Kill A Mockingbird” ... Milford Theatre, TBA The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 8pm ......Ian Flanigan & Scot Moore ..........FAL-U 8pm

Music - Blues.................... ....Willa & Co................................FAL11am Festival......................... ...Harvest Festival................... BW11am-4pm Theatre - Play.................. “Bang Bang!” ........................... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play............. “Orwell in America” ..................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Play............. “The Game’s Afoot” .......................... RIV 2pm Theatre - Play.................“Gidion’s Knot”..........................SCCC 2pm Music....Pine Bush Community Band ...Town of Crawford Park, 2pm Theatre - Musical.......“The Addams Family” ...................CTMW 3pm Music..................................Gene Alteri .............................PENN 3pm Music - Classical...........Serenade Quartet...................... PACEM 5pm Music - Jazz...........Sheila Jordan, Alan Broadbent, Harvie S .FAL 8pm

Music - Swing-Blues.....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis................FAL11am Festival......................... ...Harvest Festival................... BW11am-4pm Cinema........................ Big Eddy Film Fest .............TUST 11am-6pm Music - Jazz.....Skye Jazz Trio....Iron Forge inn, Warwick, Noon-3pm Theatre - Play.......“The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play............. “Orwell in America” ..................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Play............. “The Game’s Afoot” .......................... RIV 2pm Poetry............... Steve Dalachinksy, Yuko Otomo ........ SLGMN 2pm

Music-Classical....Sullivan County Chamber Orch...Reformed Presby. Ch., White Lake, 3pm

Music - Barbershop........... Off The Clef ............................. LUMB 3pm Theatre - Musical.......“The Addams Family” ...................CTMW 3pm Music - Jazz............. Greg Glassman Quartet .......................FAL 8pm

Festival...........................Harvest Festival ................. BW 11am-4pm Poetry....................... Liberty Poetry Festival .................. LMAC 2pm Storytelling......Black Dirt Storytelling Festival..Senior Center, Florida, 2pm Theatre - Musical.......“The Addams Family” ....... CTMW 2pm & 8pm Theatre - Play............. “Orwell in America” ..................... GOSH 7pm Cabaret......................“Drag Me To The Top” ........................FT 8pm Theatre - Play.......“The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 8pm Music - Jazz-Flamenco.Joe Lovano, Judi Silvano, Dueto Andaluz ..FAL 8pm Music -60s...................... Richard Barone .......................FAL-U 8pm

Festival........Milford Reader’s & Writer’s Festival..................Milford Festival....In the MKNG™-The Creativity Festival............. BW 10am Festival...........................Harvest Festival ................. BW 11am-4pm Fundraiser....Adrienne M. Butvinik Scholarship..Mt. Hope Park, Otisville, 1pm-4pm

Cinema...............Manhattan Short Film Festival..... SUNYO-KH 7pm Theatre - Play.......“Heroines” by Brian C. Petti............... GOSH 7pm Theatre - Play.......“The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 8pm

SUNDAY

Music - Swing-Blues.....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis................FAL11am Festival...................Rosehaven Alpaca Festival.......... BW11am-4pm Festival.............Onion Festival..........PLAV Pavilion, Pine Island, 2pm Theatre - Play.................. “Bang Bang!” ........................... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Musical.......“The Last Five Years” ......................... FP 3pm Music.. Deep Purple, Judas Priest,The Temperance Movement.BW7pm Music ...........Billy Martin’s Solo & Percussion Ensemble .FAL 8pm

Festival...............Harvest Festival ................. BW 11am-4pm Festival......Moon Festival...New Century Film, Huguenot, 11am-9pm Cinema........................ Big Eddy Film Fest ...........TUST 11am-10pm Theatre - Play..“The Mystery of Love and Sex” ...SHAD 2pm & 8pm Theatre - Play............. “Orwell in America” ..................... GOSH 7pm Music -Classical......Sullivan County Chamber Orch. .... NESIN 7pm Music - Folk-Rock - Jewish.Ayanna Martine, Chai on Music.PHILL 7pm Music - Folk..................Music for Humanity.................NOBL 7:30pm Cabaret-Burlesque....... The Slipper Room ...................... NACL 8pm Theatre - Play............. “The Game’s Afoot” ..........................RIV 8pm Theatre - Musical.......“The Addams Family” ...................CTMW 8pm Music - Funk-Soul-Jazz.......John Tropea Band......................FAL 8pm Music - Neo-Folk...........Bethany & Rufus .......................FAL-U 8pm

SLGMN ��The Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf SUNYO-KH �� SUNY Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh THRALL ��Thrall Library, Middletown TROPHY ��Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point TUST �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg WCC �� Wallkill Community Center, Middletown WCPA ��Warwick Center for The Performing Arts

Music - Roots-Blues. ....Uncommon Ground........................FAL11am Festival......................... ...Harvest Festival................... BW11am-4pm Theatre - Play.......“The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play............. “Orwell in America” ..................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Musical.......“The Addams Family” ...................CTMW 3pm Music - Classical.....Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble......GMCM 3pm Music - Jazz...........Michael Sarian & The Chabones ...........FAL 8pm

Festival.Milford Reader’s & Writer’s Festival.............Milford Festival....In the MKNG™-The Creativity Festival............. BW 10am Music - Swing +............ ....Saints of Swing..........................FAL 11am Festival......................... ...Harvest Festival................... BW11am-4pm Music - Jazz-Pop..James Emery & Tony Marino .Florida Library, 1pm Theatre - Play.......“The Mystery of Love and Sex” .......... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play.......“Heroines” by Brian C. Petti............... GOSH 2pm Music - Jazz...Jason Miles & Rave Tesar .. Arrow Park, Monroe, 2pm Music................................Another Time ........................... PENN 3pm Music - R&R.........................Hot Tuna ................................... BW 8pm Music - Jazz................ David Bixler Quintet ..........................FAL 8pm

September 2018

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

Canvas category calendar

sponsored by Catskill Art Society, Wallkill River School & Wurtsboro Art Alliance CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times.

Art exhibits CAS ��Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DVAA ��Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg MSM-DC �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville SUNYO-KH �� SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH ��SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall WRS �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery

Group Show �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, ongoing Georgia Chambers etchings, paintings ��Georgia Chambers Art Gallery, Callicoon, ongoing Catharine De Maio paintings ��Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing June Ponte paintings, stained & painted glass ��Poe & Raven Gallery, Milford, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork �� Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Carolyn Duke pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ��Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show �� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, ongoing Richard Rudich “Self and Ceremony: Portraits of a vanished world” �Gallery 222 Hurleyville, thru Aug 30 2nd Mountaindale Biennale: Made in Mountaindale II �� Grocery Store Gallery, Mountaindale, thru Aug 31 “Fly The Coop” Barryville Area Arts Assn., auction show ��Artists’ Market, Shohola, thru Sep 1 Group show paintings, sculpture, collages, etc. ��Left Bank Gallery, Liberty, thru Sep 1 “Good Old Summer Time” Crawford Arts Assn. ��Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, thru Sep 4 Ashlie Blake paintings ��Caffe a la Mode, Warwick, thru Sep 7 Plein Air Studies WRS members group show ��WRS thru Sep 14 “Tapestry/Topography” Eva Polizzi, ceramics & Laura Duerwald, paintings ��DVAA thru Sep 15 Johan Sellenraad, Judith Reeve, Jim Kingston ‘The Model Show” ��DVAA thru Sep 15 “Capturing the Essence: Portraits of People, Pets and Self” Goshen Art League �� Goshen Music Hall, thru Sep 19 August/September Group Show �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Sep 24 “End of Summer” Art About Town, River Valley Artists Guild �� thru Sep 24 Judith Weiss expressionistic paintings Bon Secours Hospital & Susan Miiller “sky and sunset”, pastels, paintings Port Jervis Library & Joan Kehlenback oil paintings, pastels Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot & Joseph Petrosi color pencil drawings, Samantha Petrosi watercolors Port Jervis City Hall Dennis Fanton paintings �� Berkshire Bank, Goshen, thru Sep 25 “Abstract: No Boundaries - Visions and the Freedom to Explore” ��SUNYO-OH thru Oct 8 Malgorzata Latos-Oakes “My Travels from Europe to the United States” �� etching, aquatint, photolithography SUNYO-KH thru Oct 9 “A Small Matter” group show ��Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Oct 20 Glenn Zweygardt “Set in Stone: The Sculpture of Glenn Zweygardt” ��Bethel Woods, thru Oct 31 “Doorways to Originality” outdoor art installation �� Bethel Woods, thru Dec Peter Max “Early Paintings” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec 31 “Streams – art in motion” group show �� Morgan Outdoors, Livingston Manor, thru Dec 31

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Third Annual BCA Silent Auction Exhibit ��BCA ARTSPACE, Kauneonga Lake, Aug 31-Sep 2 Catskill’s Craft Artisans, Art Educators Show �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 31-Oct 13 WRS Plein Air Paintout Exhibit ��Sam’s Point Interpretive Center, Cragsmoor, Sep 1-30 Shawn Dell Joyce Retrospective ��WRS Sep 1-30 “Life’s Memories” Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Sep 1-30 Judi Silvano paintings ��Greenwood Lake Library, Sep 1-30 “The Art of the Harvest” group show ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, Sep 1-30 Zheng Xuewu �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 1-30 Beacon Place LLC group show �� Woodbury Library, Highland Mills, Sep 1-30 Joan Giordano “Overview (1993-2018)” ��CAS Sep 1-Oct 27 Nancy Pitcher paintings ��Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Sep 1-Oct 27 Juried Small Works Exhibition �� Bertoni Gallery, Warwick, Sep 1-Dec 30 Marie Liu “Tree Stories”, Rosalind Hodgkins “Windows” �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, Sep 6-Oct 8 Members Show Crawford Art Association ��Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, Sep 13-Nov 6 “Fall” group show �� WRS Sep 15-Oct 14 4 Pastelists Judy Byrne, Cathy Cahill, Lily Norton, Cathy Prager ��2Alices, Newburgh, Sep 17-Nov 16 David Barnett paintings �� DVAA Sep 21-Oct 27 Leonie Lacouette unique clocks ��Orange Regional Medical Center, Cafeteria Lobby, Sep 27-Oct 29

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale �� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Richard Weber mystery photo collage abstractions ��Griffith Olivero Realtors, Goshen, thru Aug 29 Noah Kalina “Great Outdoors” �� Gallery 222, Hurleyville, thru Sep 2 Dean Goldberg “I Am India! Travels in Agra, Jaipur, and Delhi” & Christopher Neyen �� “Evidential Industrial Mannerisms” CMA Gallery, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, thru Sep.

NEW Photography exhibits

“The World War I Home Front - How Newburgh Supported the Colors”. SUNYO-KH Aug 27-Dec 14 “Lost Catskill Farm” ��Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Sep, TBA 18

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

September 2018

Mary Cathryn Roth “On Time: Surface Series” Leo’s Restaurant & Pizza, Cornwall, Sep 1-Oct 31 “Eye of the Beholder” Quintet Photographers Capturing Life ��Clearview Vineyard, Warwick, Sep 1-Oct 31 Richard Spisto ��Mount Saint Mary College, Desmond Campus, Sep 23-Oct 26

ART & Photography receptions

Beacon Place LLC group show ��Woodbury Library, Highland Mills, Sep 1, Noon-2pm WRS Plein Air Paint Out Exhibit �� Sam’s Point Interpretive Center, Cragsmoor, Sep 1, 2pm-3pm Catskill’s Craft Artisans, Art Educators Show �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Sep 1, 2pm-4pm Joan Giordano “Overview (1993-2018)” ��CAS Sep 1, talk:4pm, reception: 5pm-6pm “The Art of the Harvest” group show ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, Sep 1, 5pm-7pm Zheng Xuewu �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Sep 1, 5:30pm “Fly The Coop” group auction show ��Artists Market, Shohola, Sep 1, 4pm-6pm Juried Small Works Exhibition �� Bertoni Gallery, Warwick, Sep 1, 6pm-8pm Third Annual BCA Silent Auction ��BCA ARTSPACE, Kauneonga Lake, Sep 2, 5pm-8pm “Abstract: No Boundaries - Visions and the Freedom to Explore” ��SUNYO-OH Sep 7, 7pm-9pm “Life’s Memories” Wurtsboro Art Alliance ��John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Sep 8, 2pm-4pm Shawn Dell Joyce Retrospective �� WRS Sep 8, 5pm-7pm Nancy Pitcher paintings �� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Sep 8, 5pm-7pm Marie Liu “Tree Stories”, Rosalind Hodgkins “Windows” ��ARTery Gallery, Milford, Sep 8, 6pm-9pm Malgorzata Latos-Oakes “My Travels from Europe to the United States” ��SUNYO-KH Sep 17, 2pm David Barnett paintings �� DVAA Sep 21, 7pm-9pm Richard Spisto photography ��MSM-DC Sep 23, 1pm-3pm 4 Pastelists Judy Byrne, Cathy Cahill, Lily Norton, Cathy Prager ��2Alices, Newburgh, Sep 23, 2pm-4pm Leonie Lacouette unique clocks �� Orange Regional Medical Center, Cafeteria Lobby, Sep 27, 4pm-6pm Mary Cathryn Roth “On Time: Surface Series” �� Leo’s Restaurant, Cornwall, Oct 6, Noon-2pm

Schools & Conservatories Budding Artists art exhibit ��Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing

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HHNM �� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ��Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC �� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Books

Book Hipsters Book Club teens ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Fridays, 3:30pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs ��Greenwood Lake Library, Tuesdays, 6pm FREE Teen Movie Matinee ��Crawford Library, Monticello, 1st Saturday, 1pm FREE Saturday Family Movie ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Saturdays, 1pm FREE EntertainmenT & Lectures see also Fairs & Festivals page 16

Storytime 3-5yrs ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Mondays 10am FREE StoryWalk™ Guided Tours “Teeny, Tiny, Toady” by Jill Esbaum �� HHNM Sep 8, 11am & 1pm “Secrets in the Soil” �� HHNM Sep 15, 10am Lard Dog “Life’s a Real Dream” ��Hurleyville Arts Centre, Sep 22, 3pm Magic Show w/Scott Morley 60th Anniversary Party ��Florida Library, Sep 29, 1pm FREE Museums

Meet the Animals “Birds on the Wing” �� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Hiking Trails �� HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm “Animals & Nature Together…ANTs!” ages 2-4 �� HHNM CoH, Mondays Sep 17-Nov 19 & Thursdays Sep 20-Nov 8, 9:30 am OR 11am Nature Strollers ��HHNM Tuesdays, Sep 18-Nov 6, 9:30am StoryWalk™ Opening Day “Teeny, Tiny, Toady” by Jill Esbaum ��HHNM Sep 8, 10am-4pm Eco-Zone Discovery Room ��PEEC Sep 16 & Sep 29, 1pm-4pm

Books: discussions / readings / Signings Book Lover’s Club ��Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group �� Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm Books & Tea ��Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, 4th Wednesday, 4pm Urban Book Club �� Mulberry House Senior Center, Middletown, 4th Wednesday, 7pm Fiction & Foodies �� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, 2nd Thursday, 6pm Book Discussion Group ��1st Friday, Daniel Pierce Library, Grahamsville, 1pm Book Discussion Group �� Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4pm “Longitude” by Dava Sobel, SUNY Orange Alumni & Friends Book Club �� Morrison Hall, Middletown, Sep 13, Noon “Winter at the Door” by Sarah Graves, Mystery Book Club �� Florida Library, Sep 14, 1pm “The Giver” by Lois Lowery �� Florida Library, Sep 27, 6:30pm

MEET BRIAN PETTI: Actor, Director, Playwright A simple detail is well known through the cities, villages and towns of the Hudson Valley. Lush and bountiful, it remains the cherished home of innumerable artistic individuals; many are known and countless others remain anonymous. For discussion here, it is the performing arts, with an emphasis on Brian Petti, an internationally produced, awardwinning playwright. Brian Petti stands tall as one whose awardwinning work for stage is thoughtprovoking and stimulating. Next Year In Jerusalem, the last words of a traditional Seder, is essentially a play of recollection, a memory play, if you like: the Holocaust in general and the Warsaw Ghetto in particular. Its two main characters appear as young men, their fate most uncertain. Next Year In Jerusalem was a recipient of the Humbolt State University National Play Contest. Ten Seconds is a short, hard hitting, oneact that was featured as a part of a trilogy, Absolution, on the stage of Cornerstone Theatre Arts in Goshen. Dealing with guilt and man’s ultimate need for forgiveness,

Ten Seconds was also produced by Motivational Theatre and was winner of the Carlton E. Spitzer Excellence in Playwriting Award. Most recently, Petti’s Echoes of Ireland vividly displayed the engaging saga of an immigrant family from Ireland to New York City. It was recently produced in County Cork, Ireland by the Skibbereen Theatre Society and is published through Eldridge Plays and Musicals. In an overwhelming sense, it’s the portrait of Petti’s own family, from determined beginnings through a series of four heart-felt, personal monologues. The narrative is a worth-repeating lesson in history, defects exposed. It chronicles the legend of a lone Irish family from County Cork, c. 1850 to New York City, 2001. Then as now, the fresh facts and blemished circumstances of immigration are not always pretty. Historical fiction based on first-hand narratives are frequently harsh and alarmingly blunt. But contained in those bindings are circumstances that allow Brian Petti to resound as a noted playwright: His upbringing and related circumstances appear causal to a practice and tradition known academically as

the Irish Storytelling Tradition. No doubt, the impact of culture and ethnicity is frequently evident in writers, and perhaps more so for those who write for the stage. They labor through birth, providing life to characters who exist initially as mere figments of one’s imagination. While considering Brian Petti and his Echoes of Ireland, he is rightly proud to display his heritage and connection to the “Old Country”, more likely than not to be a characteristic resulting from the fact that a substantial part of his formative years were spent in a special corner of upstate New York’s Catskills, affectionately known as the Irish Alps, and of course his exposure to, if not immersion in, that Irish storytelling tradition. The Irish Alps remain as the basic equivalent of what the Borscht Belt was to Jews. It is a geographical area in and around East Durham in Greene County, strategically placed between Kingston and Albany. A flourishing portion of New York State, it touts ethnicity, promoted, to a large extent, by the Ancient Order of Hibernians. If you are not familiar with the word or concept of “Hooley,” google “Hooley 18 Kingston.” It comes complete,

ready or not, with an Irish “storytelling” tent. Successful writers of all genres are acutely aware of their social and political environment. Brian Petti is no exception. He is intensely observant and reflectively active. Knowing the opioid epidemic as a murderous plague, he sees its path shows little or no regard for social, racial and ethnic divides. In his new play Heroines, he is profoundly able to reflect on the ugly and coarse realities of addiction. “Just the facts ma’am.” In Heroines, Petti shows the details of addiction, through the life of a young mother, Donna. She, as a heroine addict, represents a naked and open infection: her infant child, Paige, placed in foster care by Child Protective Services. The drama is powerful and demonstrates a young mother’s struggle to be “clean” and regain custody of her child. It’s a story of the plague that surrounds communities, a story that needs to be viewed up close and personal, naked, on stage, under the lights. The world premiere of Heroines, a riveting and intense drama, will be staged at Goshen Music Hall, September 29-October 7. The intimate 50-seat theater is a 2nd floor walkup. For tickets and reservations: 845-294-4188. For mature audiences only.

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Harvest Art & Pechakucha Night at Amity Storytelling - Pechakucha Night What originated in Japan and has now gone global, Pechakucha is storytelling with a twist. Presenters tell a story that is accompanied by twenty images, each projected for twenty seconds. A world-wide traveler, Sara Kearns organizes African safaris, and shares her passion for Africa’s wildlife and people. Roger Dowd combines storytelling with the use of traditional and new media to create fanciful images that often parody 19th century artistic styles. Patricia DeBruhl discusses Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, who died on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. James Emery presents PechaKucha with a musical twist. Instead of speaking about each image, guitarist Emery has composed 20 miniature works which he will perform along with the images. Edith Katz discusses techniques from around the globe which demonstrate the range of functions that landscape can perform to counter the effects of climate change. Nina Lehman talks about Tuvalu, the country where she spent a month and a half for a climate change project. Tuvalu is thought to be one of the first countries that will go underwater due to sea level rise. Hear the presenters above at Amity’s Pechakucha night, September 8 at 8:00pm.

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Exhibit - The Art of the Harvest Visitors and residents of Warwick are blessed by the abundance of the agriculture that surround us - the beauty of farm fields, people dedicated to growing food, the barns that house the cows, and of course, the tasty food! Amity Gallery is celebrating with an exhibit titled, The Art of the Harvest. The show, which can be viewed weekends in September from Noon-4:00pm, includes artists Flavia Baccarella, Demetre Bove, Roslyn Fassett, Patricia Foxx, Janet Howard-Fatta, Heidi Lanino-Bilezkian, Phyllis Lehman, Barbara Masterson, Geraldine Scalia, Susan Sciarretta, Solveig Umbach, and Linda Winton. Meet the above artists at the opening reception on September 1 from 5:00pm7:00m at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick. For information call 845-258-4563.

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Partners in Poetry in Sugar Loaf The mission of the for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. Seligmann Center is to His latest book is the maintain and preserve the remarkable where night work of Kurt Seligmann and day become one - the and promote his legacy french poems / a selection through the presentation of 1983-2017, (great weather cutting-edge, avant garde for Media 2018). contemporary visual, Otomo, of Japanese performance and language Steve Dalachinksy & Yuko Otomo origin, is a visual artist art. MEGAPHONE is the and a bilingual writer. photo: Joyce Jones ©2018 Sugar Bowl Photography center’s literary series and She writes poetry, haiku, mouthpiece. travelogues, and essays. Her art criticism Poets Steve Dalachinksy and Yuko Otomo appears regularly as a contributor to the online do more than share a domestic partnership, forum Arteidolia. Otomo’s publications they share the same calling: POETRY. They include Garden: Selected Haiku (Beehive also mirror each other as multi-taskers, being Press), Fragile (Sisyphus Press), Small equally talented as writers and visual artists. Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Hand of Dalachinksy, who, as a young man, was the Poet (Ugly Duckling Presse), STUDY and heavily influenced by beat poets - Ginsberg, Other Poems on Art (Ugly Duckling Presse.), Corso, and Ted Jones, as well as jazz Elements (Feral Press) and KOAN (New Feral musicians, Parker, Monk, and Coleman - was Press). A new volume, anonymous landscape born in Brooklyn shortly after WWII. His is forthcoming. book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) Together, the prolific twosome published won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. Frozen Heatwave, a collaborative linkedHis latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams poem project (Luna Bissonte Prods 2017). with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach On September 16, from 2:00pm-4:00pm, (Roguart 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the this dynamic duo will kick off the fall season French art-rock group the Snobs (Bambalam of MEGAPHONE at the Seligmann Center, 2015). He has received both the Kafka and 23-26 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf. A $5 Acker Awards and is a 2014 recipient of a donation at the door is appreciated. Light Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres. refreshments are provided. His poem Particle Fever was nominated For information, call 845-469-9459.

Mary Roth Exhibits at Leo’s, Cornwall

Abstract Art Show, SUNY Orange

Photographer Mary regular buildings Roth was born in Fort alike. Wayne, Indiana in The UNESCO 1969. She has been World Heritage Site exhibiting her work of Trinidad, Sancti in the New York Spiritus, Cuba, was metropolitan area built on the back since the mid-1990’s of the 19th-century and in the Hudson sugar and slave trade. Valley since 2007. At its zenith, in 1827, Roth volunteered as one of the 56 sugar “Surface Series: Cuba” by Mary Roth a docent at the Museum mills in the region of African Art, worked as a Press Liaison for harvested the biggest cane haul in the world the International Center of Photography, and - just under a million kilos of white pressed photographer for the National Museum of the crystals. This enormous, conspicuous wealth American Indian/Smithsonian Department of shaped the town and no expense was spared Education. She currently lives and works in in fashioning the finest Spanish colonial the Hudson Valley where she serves as a board mansions, plazas and churches, which still trustee for the Village of Unionville. She also stand testament to this era. Time-worn, serves as a Family Advisory Board Member weathered abstract fragments of surfaces of of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, and is these buildings from Trinidad photographed an adjunct faculty member at SUNY Orange in 2000 are included in this exhibition. in the Arts and Communication Department. The Surface Series imagery is a reflection on A reception for an exhibit, On Time: Surface the effects of nature on man-made structures Series takes place at Leo’s Restaurant, 23 over time, the idea of history repeating itself, Quaker Avenue, Cornwall, on October 6, and the knowledge that our egos and errors will from Noon-2:00pm. The show runs from be erased - that over time nature prevails. Roth September 1-October 31. is interested in how humankind structures and The works from the Surface Series: patterns our lives primally and specifically to “Trinidad Sancti Spiritus, Cuba”, “New York our time. City” and “Newburgh” in On Time reflect www.marycathrynrothphotography.com on the weathering of historic structures and See Leo’s ad below for more info.

By definition, abstract immersion by being art is “the reduction of surrounded by the 143 natural forms to their works on display: six essentials and/or the foot tall wood sculptures, combination of shapes, pewter and silver jewelry, lines, colors, tones, and ribbons of forged steel, textures divorced from chiseled stone, found representational intent objects, vivid batiked and created for their own silk, various oils, pastels, sake.” [Dictionary of watercolors, acrylics, Art & Artists – Collins experimental drawings Reference & Britannica]. and photographs, and Consequently, abstract art lots more to intrigue and “Fissure VIII” by Carol Flaitz allows freedoms to artists captivate. and to viewers; it offers A reception is new worlds as it broadens scheduled for September the mind and heightens 7 from 7:00pm-9:00pm interest and curiosity. during which attendees To experience the may meet the artists in a excitement of visual casual atmosphere with art unbridled, come to light refreshments and Orange Hall Gallery, the splendid playing of Loft, and Fringe to classical selections and explore large and small jazz standards by Geoff artworks by fifty-one “Stegaosauras” by Josiah Dearborn Hamburg, pianist. artists. Created in media including collages, Orange Hall is located at SUNY Orange paintings, drawings, mixed media, fiber/ and situated at the corner of Wawayanda and fabric, photographs, and sculptures, the Grandview Avenues, (GPS: 24 Grandview show, Abstract: No Boundaries ~ Visions Ave), Middletown. and the Freedom to Explore is open for The gallery is closed on Labor Day. viewing through October 8. For information, call Cultural Affairs at The exhibit offers the opportunity of 845-341-4891.

Enjoy viewing photographs by Mary Roth at Leo’s Cornwall location throughout the months of September & October!

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Phillipsport: Jewish & Pop Punk Music

Art About Town: “End of Summer”

The Chai on as an accompanist Music trio was for numerous created for the All-County and May 2013 edition NYSSMA choral of Jewish Heritage groups. Month. The original Renowned trio of vocalists saxophonist Larry Richie Chiger and Ravdin spent 30 Lori Schneider years playing Chai on Music, left to right: Leon Hilfstein, plus pianist Leon with the Concord Hilfstein expanded Larry Ravdin, Lori Schneider & Richie Chiger Orchestra. He to a quartet including Larry has accompanied such greats as Ravdin on reeds. Sammy Davis, Jr., Rita Moreno, Chai on Music focuses on the and Chita Rivera. Yiddishkeit of late 19th century Ayanna Martine is an aspiring mass Jewish immigration, the singer/songwriter. She started emigration of Jewish music from playing piano at the age of 4, and the Lower East Side uptown to picked up the guitar when she Tin Pan Alley and the Golden was 12. Since then she has been Age of American Song, then up entertaining audiences with the again to Broadway and Hollywood guitar, keyboard, and ukulele. musicals, plus the Israeli folk Ayanna Martine Ayanna’s influences include music of the first half of the 20th century. Twenty One Pilots and Blink 182, as well as Ellenville resident Richie Chiger studied pop punk, R&B and alternative rock artists. at SUNY New Paltz and is the president of Chai on Music and Ayanna Martine will the Catskill Exotic Bird Club. perform for Phillipsport’s Monthly Music A playwright, director, and actress, Night series at the Phillipsport Community Lori Schneider has been involved in local Center, 657 Red Hill Road, on September community theatre for three decades. 15 at 7:00pm. A music director for the Sullivan County Doors open at 6:30pm. $2 suggested Dramatic Workshop, Leon Hilfstein has donation. Homemade food and desserts worked with various cabaret productions and available for purchase. Call 845-313-1772.

work is in many public and Art About Town, sponsored private collections. Visit www. by the River Valley Artists susanmiillerart.com Guild (RVAG) presents End Bon Secours: Judith Weiss’ of Summer through September summer themed expressionistic 24. The works, displayed at paintings. “It is through the four venues, include drawings natural environment of earth, in color pencil and pastel and rock and water, and the plant paintings in watercolor and oil world that I express the portraying the heat and light at ineffable. I begin my work the end of summer. The exhibits from landscapes I have seen will feature new work by fatherand photographed, put them daughter artists Joe Petrosi and Samantha Petrosi, with “Saying Goodbye” by J. Petrosi aside and move into recall and personal feeling. In this ongoing shows by Susan way I communicate my inner Miiller, Judith Weiss and landscape,” explains Judith. Joan Kehlenbeck. Deerpark Town Hall: RVAG City Hall: Joseph Petrosi’s president Joan Kehlenbeck color pencil drawings and has shown her oil paintings Samantha Petrosi’s watercolor and pastel drawings regionally paintings. An awardwinning and is well-known in the area artist, Joseph is a certified art for her demonstrations and and textile airbrush specialist. workshops. A local art teacher, Samantha’s View the exhibits at: well-crafted watercolor paintings glow from within Watercolor by Samantha Petrosi Mayor’s Office in City Hall, and are inspired by the patterns of stained 20 Hammond St., Port Jervis; Port Jervis Library Community Room, 138 Pike St.; glass windows. Port Jervis Library: Susan Miiller’s sky Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, 160 E and sunset pastels and paintings. Susan Main St., Port Jervis, & Deerpark Town received the Orange County Art Council’s Hall, 420 Route 209, Huguenot. E-mail susanmiiler@yahoo.com or visit Community Arts Grant in 2018 and Orange Arts Grants in 2016, 2014 and 2009. Her rivervalleyartistsguildofportjervis.com

The Middletown Men Of Note tion Atten Valley n o s ! Hud ngers i S e l Ma Barbershop Singing Group seeks new members from the Hudson Valley! The Middletown Men of Note announces an open invitation to all men interested in singing 4-part harmony, “a capella”. Sit-in and sing-along! Rehearsals take place every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at Promenade Senior Care Facility, 70 Fulton Street at Academy Avenue, Middletown. Contact Stan Spencer (355-1678) Fred Cosh (344-5530) or Jack Austin (649-8720)

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The Garretts Hand Over the GMCM Baton To Aleksander Vezuli Last season, Montgomery icon Howard Garrett and his Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series (GMCM) coproducer Judy Garrett introduced the GMCM successor to their loyal audience when they announced their retirement, and CANVAS is now excited to announce composer, producer, arranger, and instrumentalist Aleksander Vezuli’s 20182019 GMCM season opener. For his inaugural GMCM concert, he will bring five musicians to Montgomery. Canta Libre (“Sing Freely”), a renowned quintet of flute, harp and strings, was founded in 2002 to foster the performance and enjoyment of music composed specifically for harp quintet. Considered experts in this ephemeral, rare style of chamber music with its origins in France, Canta Libre was recently featured at The American Harp Society 50th Anniversary National Conference, has appeared at Lincoln Center, on WNYC Concerts at One, at Trinity Church in Manhattan, the Brooklyn Public Library, University of Texas at Austin, and Bruno Walter Auditorium, among other prestigious venues. Bernard Tamosaitis (cello), performs with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. In 2002, he founded and conducted the first performance of the St. Thomas Orchestra in Mamaroneck.

Veronica Salas (viola), earned her DMA from the Juilliard School where she studied with Lillian Fuchs. Salas has given five New York recitals including her Canta Libre: Sally Shorrock, Bernard Tamosaitis, Karen Lindquist, Bradley Bosenbeck and Veronica Salas highly successful debut at Weill Recital Hall. Marcel Grandjany (1891Karen Lindquist (harp), 1975) and Bernard Andrès (b. is an avid chamber music 1941), they will perform great player and has appeared at classics: Faure’s Pavane, the Marlboro Music Festival, Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, and with the Chamber Music Viola and Harp, Piazzolla’s Society of Lincoln Center. Oblivion, and, arguably, the Bradley Bosenbeck most beautiful piece of music (violin), was fortunate enough ever written: the Cantilena to have collaborated closely from Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas with such inimitable talents Aleksander Vezuli Brasilerias No. 5, in addition as Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Charles Dutoit, to Francaix’ lively and humorous Cinq James Levine, and John Williams among Sonatas de Dominico Scarlatti. others. Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble performs Sally Shorrock (flute), grew up in a on September 23 at 3:00pm in the musical family. Her musical passion is Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge focused on the publicly and privately Street. Admission is free. supported Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble, See ads on page 3 for three pre and post which she founded and directs. concert dining options nearby. In addition to introducing GMCM audiences See ad on page 4 for the entire GMCM to composers Joseph Jongen (1873-1953), season schedule.

Fly the Coop!

Fly the Coop! is a community art project designed by Eija Friedlander of the Barryville Area Arts Association to connect businesses, consumers, art lovers, and artists. Home Depot in Matamoras donated plywood, carpenter Michael Parker donated his services to transform the plywood into 40 chicken cutouts, local artists decorated them, and local businesses are now displaying them. For example: Not Chicken by Candy Heiland is at the Stickett Inn in Barryville; and Chicken of the Sea by Mef Gannon is on display at the Silver Star Gallery in Milford. “We thank the local businesses for their support, and hope our creations resulted in new business for them,” said Eija. Visit the Fly The Coop! FaceBook page to message in a bid for a bird. Both roosters and hens are up for auction, and will all be coming home to roost on September 1, from 4:00pm6:00pm at the Artists’ Market Community Center, 114 Richardson Avenue, Shohola. Bidding closes at 5:30pm that day.

In Memoriam: Marya A. Kennett 1921 ~ 2018

by Cynthia Harris Pagano

Rich. Gina Solimando and Paul Quinn, who did the Grand Pas de A gala reception was Deux of The Nutcracker held Saturday, August 11, together for many years, 2018 at the Marya Kennett were reunited again, too. Dance Center, 150 West The dance teachers had the Main Street, Goshen, for opportunity to see former Marya Kennett, Artistic students and there were Director. The celebration many shared memories. was hosted by Marya’s Marya came to Goshen family. in 1949 with her husband Gathered were recent Walter Kennett. By that and past dance students of time she already had a ballet, tap, and jazz, parents, dance career entertaining instructors, colleagues troops during World and many other dancers War II. She attended and dance lovers from the ballet dance seminars “Marya” by Cynthia Harris-Pagano led region and out of state. by groundbreaking A former student and present colleague, choreographer George Balanchine. Marya Beckie Nodhturft, and noted Kennett instructor, mastered the teaching of his classical ballet Claude Vallet, originally from Paris, France, techniques which, through her dynamic worked with and choreographed for Marya’s teaching methods, helped to suffuse the ballet students a nostalgic ballet vignette, Hudson Valley area with high standards of performed during the reception in the large ballet performance. main studio to honor the memory of Marya. Her performances of The Nutcracker given Before the dance presentation many former every December, (first at Twin Towers middle ballet colleagues and stars of the ballet school auditorium - the finest auditorium in stage met and reconnected. These included the area, and then at the Paramount Theatre, Adrienne Cordani, her long time assistant, both in Middletown), were unequaled in the Debbie Nodhturft, Claude Vallet, and Susan area for more than twenty years. September 2018

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Celebrate The First Annual Black Dirt Storytelling Festival in Florida! Florida Public Library (FPL) will sponsor its first Black Dirt Storytelling Festival. FPL has been the regional home of storytelling since the formation of the Black Dirt Storytelling Guild (BDSG) in 2001. The Guild meets monthly at the Library and has produced numerous events and outreach programs to schools, libraries, camps, scouts, museums and other agencies over the years. Members hope that the Festival can grow into a well-attended annual event. Several storytellers who are familiar to local audiences will be making return appearances. Seanchai Jim Hawkins will return with Irish stories and songs to kick off the festival. Hawkins, a retired English teacher from Baldwin, Long Island, specializes in folktales, myths and personal stories of growing up in Ireland and the Irish community of New York City. Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi, is an author and storyteller from Beacon whose bold, expressive style is a favorite with library audiences. She mixes folktales with true stories of growing up on the Canadian border. She has partnered with educators to bring storytelling into the elementary curriculum and is the author of Wisdom in the Telling: Finding Inspiration and Grace in Traditional Folktales and Myths Retold. Along with Muriel Horowitz, she is a co-founder of the Dutchess Interfaith Story Circle which shares stories in many houses of worship. Horowitz, also a featured teller at the festival, is a retired teacher from Poughkeepsie and a board member of Northeast Storytelling. She has visited Florida several times to share stories from her Jewish heritage for

the Library’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day. She facilitates workshops on storytelling skills to enhance literacy learning, cultural connections and a more peaceful world. Christie Keegan of S. Hawkins L. Hartin-Gelardi M. Horowitz C. Keegan Saratoga Springs is new many years as a Revolutionary War re-enactor to Florida and brings her almost 30 years as both a patriot and a Hessian, and with deep experience to bear as a teller of personal family roots along the Hudson River, she has stories in her engaging, intense and dynamic a particular interest in the history and people style. Although her tales are often disguised of the Hudson Valley. as folk or fairy tales, and just as often bring Folino has been director of FPL for twenty listeners to laughter and tears, Keegan’s years and a storyteller for thirty, getting her aim is to illustrate how little our differences start doing weekly programs at Pine Island matter compared to how much we have in elementary school in the 1980s. She loves all common. kinds of stories, especially creation myths, Ken Karnas of Wantage, NJ, credits and often tells tales of her own mythic storytelling as an essential skill to surviving childhood growing up in Cornwall in the and enjoying his 42 years as an elementary 1950s and ‘60s, as well as humorous stories and middle school teacher in Sussex County. from many traditions. Her greatest pleasure is He will entertain with a true, but little-known inspiring other people to tell their own weird, story from American history. In addition to wacky and wonderful family stories. swapping stories in Florida, Ken serves on At the Festival, hand-outs will be the board of the NJ Storytelling Network. He distributed on the American Library also loves to tell stories about his early days Association and Public Broadcasting in Bloomfield where his Polish family ran a System’s joint program, Great American small grocery store. Reads. The Festival’s storytellers will be The Festival’s offerings will be rounded tying their oral presentations into some of out by two very familiar faces to local fans the hundred books identified by Americans of storytelling. BDSG founding members as their best-loved. Whether you are a reader Eileen Stelljes and Madelyn Folino will be anchoring the afternoon show. They’ve been known to tell stories together as “The Library Goddesses.” Stelljes, a lifelong resident of Orange Lake, will share a story based on her latest dive into Orange County history. With

Murderously Funny Mayhem at The Rivoli Schneeberger, Alan Suspense, laughter, Charney, Taylor plot twists and turns, a Lamerand, Ellen mansion full of guests Pavloff, Rick and Sherlock Holmes Shafstein, Constance - a witty “whodunit” Slater, Heather is about to set foot Strauss & Derk onstage with Ken Vanwolde, Jr. Ludwig’s murderously Produced by Lillian funny, The Game’s Tighe, Jim Schmidt Afoot. is technical director The Sullivan County and Jim Fedroff is Dramatic Workshop Left - right: Rick Schafstein, stage manager with has been providing Heather Strauss, Taylor Lamerand, Derk Vanwolde, Jr. & Kim Schneeberger set design by Harold awardwinning community theatre in the Catskills since Tighe; costume design by Ed Berens. The play runs September 7-16 at the 1950. In its latest offering, it is Christmas Eve, 1936 and William Gillette, an eccentric Rivoli Theatre, 5243 Main Street, South actor best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Fallsburg. Discounts available at the box Holmes invites friends to his Connecticut office for seniors, students, military and mansion. During the evening, someone veterans. Visit www.SCDW.net or phone 845-436comes up murdered and Gillette goes into his Holmes persona in an attempt to “solve 5336 for tickets. the crime.” The Game’s Afoot is sponsored by Harold Under the direction of Kim Schneeberger & Lillian Tighe and produced by special and Harold Tighe, the cast includes arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. 24

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K. Karnas

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of literary or popular novels or a devotee of spoken word performances or just relish a good yarn expertly told, there will be lots to enjoy during the Black Dirt Storytelling Festival’s inaugural event. Come celebrate storytelling in all its forms on the autumnal equinox, a day marked in many ways in many cultures around the world and now, by local storytelling, on September 22 at 2:00pm. In addition to marking the first day of autumn, the festival will celebrate Great American Reads and the Library’s 60th Anniversary (see pg. 28). Attentive listeners from age 5 to 105 are invited to attend. The program is not suitable for preschoolers. Refreshments will be available during intermission, courtesy of FPL’s Tween Club and the Friends of the FPL. Admission to the afternoon of stories is free, but seating is limited and advance registration is encouraged. Visit www.floridapubliclibrary. org and click on calendar to register or call the Library at 845-651-7659 to sign up.

Moon Festival Celebration, Huguenot activities and more, framed by For thousands of years, the picturesque mountains. Moon Festival has been a time to Don’t miss this vibrant celebrate the harvest. Families, festival featuring massive, friends and communities gather colorful dragons and lions to give thanks and pray for a dancing, food, country music prosperous future. and displays of traditional The 3rd annual Moon Festival Chinese music, dance and in Deerpark is a family-friendly event and one of the largest photo: Holly Kellum / Epoch Times martial arts! The festival is on September 15, from culturally unique, outdoor events in Orange County. There will be live entertainment 11:00am-9:00pm at 517 Neversink Drive, and a wide variety of food and activities, Port Jervis, just south of Huguenot. Call 845-236-5535 for information. performances, live music, vendors, kids’

Leonie Lacouette: It’s About Time! Over twenty-five years ago, Leonie Lacouette started making clocks as a practical way to make a living while using the aesthetic training she had received in art school. It all began when she needed a clock for her studio and noticed an ad in a magazine for a company selling clock mechanisms. Ordering five, she used one to make her own timepiece, and then made four more to sell. They sold out immediately, and she has been making clocks ever since! “I’ve been creating beautiful clocks for nearly thirty years. My work includes wall clocks in various sizes, all hand crafted in New York state. My clocks are made of

wood, copper, steel and other metals in designs with clean, contemporary lines. From geometric metal clocks to modern wooden timepieces,” states Lacouette. Beauty meets functionality in these clocks as Lacouette continues to create new designs that refine the perfection of both. “I’m a mechanic as well as an artist,” she says, “these things need to function, after all.” View Leonie’s works from September 27October 29 in the lobby cafeteria at Orange Regional Medical Center, 707 East Main Street, Middletown. A reception will be held on September 27 from 4:00pm-6:00pm. Visit www.leonietime.com for more.

Fall Series at Forestburgh Tavern September 8: Slam Allen The Forestburgh Tavern season opens September 8 at 8:00pm with internationally renowned Slam Allen, a messenger of love! This dynamic entertainer uses the genres of blues, soul, R&B, and a touch of rock and roll to deliver powerful soulstirring performances. Slam captures you with a voice that echoes Otis Redding, a guitar that immerses you in B. B. King, and stage energy reminiscent of James Brown, all while captivating you with his own original music! Doors open at 7:00pm for dinner and drinks, sold separately from ticket price. September 22: Drag Superstar Known as the Carol Burnett of drag, “Showbiz Spitfire” Paige Turner is one of the original creators, producers and host of NYC’s live drag reality show So You Think You Can Drag? Paige tours throughout the country in her all-live one-woman shows, including her critically acclaimed show Confessions of an Un-Natural Blonde and the Paige Turner Show. A two-time Glam Award winner, Paige

is known for her overthe-top parodies on her YouTube channel. This drag superstar of New York City and star of Shade: Queens of NYC (Fusion Network) makes her Forestburgh Playhouse debut in her all new LIVE sung one-woman show Drag me to the Top!, which has previously played to sold out runs in New York City and Mexico. Learn the unvarnished truth of how this drag superstar climbed her way to the top in a world filled with bottoms. Drag me to the top! is a hysterical evening of live singing, outrageous comedy, and videos featuring songs from Frozen, One Direction, Burlesque, Hamilton, and many more. Get ready to ride on a rainbow as this tawdry blonde bombshell takes you into her phantasmagorical world of mayhem and foolishness on September 22 at 8:00pm. Life can be a drag - and Paige Turner wouldn’t have it any other way! Visit www.paigeturnernyc.com for more about Turner. Doors open at 7:00pm at the Forestburgh Tavern, 39 Forestburgh Road, Forestburgh. Box office: 845-794-1194. Visit www.fbplayhouse.org

Burlesque Returns to NACL NACL Theatre welcomes back (for the how-manyeth-time?) the always awe-inspiring, guttertrawling, jaw-dropping, sidesplitting, dream-weaving acts and artists of Manhattan’s palace of variety: The Slipper Room. The brain child of performer and producer James Habacker, when The Slipper Room opened in 1999, neo-burlesque was in its infancy. Before that time there had been some random shows in lofts and bars around Manhattan, but The Slipper Room was the first venue built specifically to showcase the work of this burgeoning new collective. It was an art project in itself, an artist run venue designed to nurture emerging talent, and push performers to reach their true potential. The early shows were mostly comprised of performance artists, drag queens, experimental dancers, sideshow acts, and anyone who showed up with an idea, no matter how outrageous, messy, lewd, or illegal. Very often in the early days there were not enough performers to make up a full show, and producer Habacker would ply his friends with drinks, dress them up in

outrageous costumes and quickly concoct a plot before pushing them out on stage. It wasn’t long before word got around about this new artist collective, and enough young talent presented themselves at The Slipper Room to make it possible to put up high quality shows every night. As master of ceremonies, Habacker allowed performers a forum to push themselves and try out new work without fear of censorship. He also added comic relief with his wide variety of characters, his satirical wit, and love of Vaudeville. Leave your inhibitions at the door on September 15 at 8:00pm at NACL Theatre, 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake. For mature audiences only. For tickets: www.nacl.org and at the door. September 2018

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Bethel Woods Harvest Festival Bethel Woods farms and a bottomless welcomes guests near choice of either and far to celebrate mimosas or bloody the return of autumn marys! by attending the The Rosehaven 20th annual Harvest Alpaca Festival is Festival, every Sunday a one-day event that in September from features live alpacas, 11:00am-4:00pm. spinning and weaving The Harvest Festival demonstrations and a highlights the bounty shop-able boutique on and talent of both September 2. Sullivan County and Other activities to the surrounding areas. enjoy include local The family-friendly Rosehaven Alpaca Festival, Bethel, 2017 lifestyle blog and environment features more than 100 vendors, home décor brand, The Farmhouse Project’s including craft, farm and agriculture, Creative Learning Tent - a tent filled with beer, wine, spirits and food. The annual unique makers as a celebration of artisans event illustrates Bethel Woods’ steadfast from local studios, spending the day with dedication to supporting regional economic special guests from the Cornell Cooperative development by giving homegrown Extension and their farm animal friends, and organizations and businesses the chance to lots of live music! highlight their products as they connect with From September 29-30, Bethel Woods’ their community. Offerings also include a upper campus will be host to IN THE creative learning tent, live music, corn and MKNG™ - The Creativity Festival, an hay mazes, and horse and buggy rides. Association for Creative Industries event Start off your day with a family-style for people who love to DIY, create and craft. Farm-to-Table Brunch on September 2 & 9 Be sure to visit the festival for a hands-on, at 10:30am in the Market Sheds, presented family-friendly experience! by Bethel Woods’ own Executive Chef. The For IN THE MKNG™ - use code menu will feature a delightful selection of BWMKNG18 for a $2 discount. dishes using ingredients sourced from local Tickets: www.BethelWoodsCenter.org

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The Manhattan Short Film Festival The Manhattan Short Film Festival (MSFF) will be screened on September 29 at 7:00pm in the OBTC Great Room 101, Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange, Newburgh. The MSFF offers families and friends (15 and over) viewing of innovative and creative films from Austria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, New Zealand, UK, and the U.S. At the conclusion of the screening, the audience participates in voting for Best Film

and Best Actor. The votes from all venues worldwide are counted, and the winners are announced by MSFF on October 8. Results of the SUNY Orange moviegoers’ voting as well as the worldwide voting are released via e-blast. See ad on page 28 for location and parking. Box Office table opens at 6:00pm the evening of the screening. Tickets available only at the door. For information, call 845-341-4891/9386.

Mamakating Library: Poetry Reading Sonia Greenfield lives with her husband, son, and rescue dogs in Hollywood where she edits the Rise Up Review and co-directs the Southern California Poetry Festival. Sonia’s chapbook American Parable won the 2017 Autumn House Press/Coal Hill Review Prize. Her first full-length collection, Boy with a Halo at the Farmer’s Market, won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize. Her collection of prose poems, Letdown, is forthcoming in 2020 with White Pine Press. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications. William A. Greenfield is a writer of poetry, a part time youth advocate worker, a fairly

good poker player, and a fairly poor golfer. He resides in Liberty with his wife, son, and a dog - always a dog. In 2012, he won Storyteller Magazine’s People’s Choice Award. A finalist in the 2016 Knightville Poetry Contest, his work recently received honorable mention in the Common Ground Review Poetry Contest. His chapbook, Momma’s Boy Gone Bad, was published in February 2017 by Finishing Line Press. The Mamakating Library, 128 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, will host a father/daughter poetry reading by Sonia & William on September 19 at 6:30pm. To register: 845-888-8004.

1 Model, 2 Years, 3 Artists, Narrowsburg For better than two years, three artists of different orientations to art met weekly to paint the same model, Catherine. The three artists painted the same pose for three hours a session over three to four weeks. The result? A diverse collection of drawings and paintings. Johan Sellenraad taught drawing, painting, and art history at Roosevelt University in Chicago, the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, and Parsons School of Design. His paintings deal with the painterly and psychological aspects of the subject. Judith Reeve grew up along the Delaware River, not far from By Laura Deurwald Chadds Ford, PA. At the age of nine, she met realist painter Andrew Wyeth (best known for Christina’s World, 1948), and came to recognize that painting could become a vital life-long pursuit. Reeve continues to be inspired by the works of American painters, most notably Robert Henri. Her color palette investigations have been enhanced by her studies of Henri’s archive, which includes his personal notes, color palettes and various color and compositional theories.

Jim Kingston taught illustration, life drawing, and digital art classes. A realist having painted in water media for most of his career, Kingston began oil painting about 10 years ago. His By Eva Polizzi strongest influences are Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer. The Model Show, an exhibition of drawings and oil paintings by Johan Sellenraad, Judith Reeve, and Jim Kingston, runs at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Loft Gallery, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, through September 15. And while there, take a peek at Tapestry/ Topography, an exhibition of ceramics by Eva Polizzi and paintings by Laura Deurwald running through September 15. Call 845-252-7576 for more information.

Big Eddy Premieres, Discussions, Parties This year’s Big Eddy lives of Frosty and other Film Festival features a artists. Their camaraderie at special focus on nonfiction the famed New York City bar, storytelling, beginning with Max’s Kansas City, created the world premiere of the synergies in art, music and new film The Art & Times culture. of Frosty Myers on opening The Festival will continue night September 14 at all weekend with premieres of 8:00pm. This documentary several new nonfiction films, chronicles the extraordinary panel discussions, special life and career of American events and cocktail parties. sculptor Forrest “Frosty” Join a panel discussion Myers, perhaps best known “306 Hollywood” Sep. 15, 1pm about the art of composing for his SoHo landmark artwork, music scores for documentary The Wall. films, featuring composers and The Art & Times of Frosty musicians from several of this Myers documents Myers’ year’s Festival selections. career over the past halfLooking ahead to the next century. Coming to New York generation of filmmakers, City from San Francisco in the Festival presents short 1961, he entered the rapidly videos by local youth changing art scene in New created in recent filmmaking York City in the 1960s, when workshops led by video artist American artists were ripping Ron Littke in Monticello, away established European Eldred, Jeffersonville, and traditions, replacing them with Narrowsburg. Abstract Expressionism, Pop, “Minding the Gap” Sep. 15, 9pm Meet and mingle with Minimalism, Conceptualism, Earth Art, Hard filmmakers. Join in lively conversation. And Edge painting and sculpture, and embracing see some of the most exciting documentaries Art and Technology. The cultural changes of being made today! the social justice movements and the antiPhone: 845-252-7576. war protests were intertwined with the daily www.bigeddyfilmfest.com

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Music on Market: Eric Banger & The Mashers A rich tradition within Irish and British folk music reflects very ancient notions of a mythical otherworld as well as an enduring sense of the power and influence of supernatural beings in everyday life. For long, interactions with the fairy folk as presented in such songs could serve as a useful symbolic language to communicate complicated truths about society such as extramarital sex or unwanted pregnancies. Songs featuring spiritual visitors also had the potential to give voice to those who had suffered unjustly in life. Local Irish traditional folk band Eric Banger and the Mashers will explore this ghostly theme in a set of poignant ballads, boisterous drinking songs and ethereal airs and jigs, along with some commentary on the multifaceted histories and meanings behind these centuries-old pieces for the Music on Market series, September 20 at 7:30pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 40 Market Street, Ellenville. The band has been together for six years. They formed in 2012 in Newburgh with vocalists Jeff Doolittle and Greg Burak on guitars and Eric Petersen as the lead singer

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and bodhran player. While Greg and Eric have since moved on, Jeff has continued the band with fiddler Anastasia Solberg, Liza Doolittle on bodhran and vocals and Zach Brandman on acoustic bass and mandolin. They are inspired by Irish folk bands such as the Clancy Brothers, the Dubliners and the Pogues, was well as the monumental print collections of Irish and British traditional music compiled in the 19th century. Over the years, the band have played numerous shows at The Wherehouse in Newburgh and they have an annual gig on St. Patrick’s Day at Darby O’Gill’s in Hyde Park. Recent performances have been featured on WJFF 90.5 FM. The members of the band lead varied lives: Jeff is a Ph.D. candidate in Medieval History at Fordham University; Anastasia is a classically-trained violist who performs internationally and also teaches at SUNY Ulster; Liza is a jazz and blues singer and full-time mom and Zach is an insurance underwriter and plays bass in other local bands. See ad on page 26..

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Florida Public Library: 60th Anniversary! The Florida Public Library (FPL) will celebrate its 60th anniversary with programs for all ages. Friends of the FPL kick off events with a Fall Used Book Sale in the Seward Senior Center on September 29 & 30, from 9:00am-3:00pm. There will also be a bake sale both days. On September 29 at 1:00pm, magician Scott Morley will entertain families with amazing tricks. Following the show, everyone can share anniversary cake and beverages and see the unveiling of a plaque donated to the FPL by the family of the late Lawrence Furst, a Brooklyn history teacher who enjoyed a happy retirement in Florida. The family donated $5,000 for the Library’s future expansion. Visitors are also invited to admire a set of color photographs of local black dirt scenery taken by the late John J. Kimiecik, an English teacher at S.S. Seward Institute who was an authority on local history and presented many programs at the Library. The Board of Trustees hosts an Anniversary Celebration at Glenmere Brewing Company, 55 Maple Avenue, Florida, on September 29 at 7:30pm. Tickets for the event include food and live music by guitarist Jim Coleman. Merchants have contributed gifts for prize drawings and tickets are $1 per chance or six

tickets for $5. For tickets, call the Library: 845-651-7659. On September 30, enjoy a concert by James Emery and Tony Marino of the New York String Duo who will draw from the Great American Songbook with selections from Gershwin, Porter, Davis and Coltrane. According to a history of the Library compiled by former president Shirley Coughlin, the FPL was started in 1956 when local boy scouts went door to door soliciting donations of books to start a library collection. Local resident William Rosenberg offered free storage space for the books. The Library was chartered as an association library serving the village and Pine Island in the fall of ‘58 and joined the newly formed Ramapo Catskill Library System in ‘59. Margery Mance was the first library director; David Mance was the first board president. After many years of existing in rented quarters in several places around the Village, surviving a disastrous flood in the mid-1990s which closed the Library for months, FPL was granted a permanent charter as a school district Public Library in 2002 to serve the residents of the Florida Union Free School District. Visit www.floridapubliclibrary.org for the full history by Shirley Coughlin.

The Mystery of Love & Sex in Ellenville Playwright Bathsheba Doran grew up in London and studied at Cambridge University. She landed her first job as a professional writer for a comedy sketch for BBC’s Bruiser. She worked for several years as a comedy writer, writing for shows like Smack the Pony and TV to Go. In 2000, she moved to the U.S. on a Fulbright Scholarship. After receiving her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, she went on to become a playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School. Doran says she fell in love with theatre when she found Peter Pan’s shadow in the backstage at a theatre when she was a little girl and realized that it was made of pantyhose. Her play, The Mystery of Love and Sex

opened at Lincoln Center in New York in 2015. Deeply insightful and very funny, The Mystery of Love & Sex captures both the aimless yet headstrong swagger of twentysomethings, as well as the guarded, practiced veneer of their parents. This compelling, spirited story of intricate relationships is an entertaining and explosive look at race, sexual identity and family dynamics. “Perfectly wonderful...a tender and funny exploration of the lives of two couples from two generations.” - NY Times The play will be performed September 1430 at Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. Box office: 845-647-5511.

Father and Son Poets Read in Goshen Dennis Bressack has been writing poetry, short stories and essays with family, social, political, pro-environmental, antiwar and pro-peace themes for more than 45 years. A retired dentist, he resides in Woodstock with his wife, Abby, and their 22 yearold son, Justin, who is a graduate student

at The Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and their dog, Henry David Thoreau. Dennis and Justin Bressack are the featured poets for Poetry at the Church at the Goshen Methodist Church, 115 Main Street, Goshen, on September 24 at 7:00pm. Admission is free.

Wellness Modalities: CHAKRA BALANCING by Derek Leet “Even though the body appears to be a material object, in reality it’s a field of energy, transformation and intelligence. When we look beyond the molecules that make up the matter of the body, we see fields of energy. New and novel technology is being developed that can detect these subtle energy vibrations and give us insight into the health of the energetic body. “Ancient Vedic knowledge tells us that this vital energy moves in discretely defined channels, and there exist concentrations of energy in the midline of the body. These centers or wheels of energy are called chakras, and each of these centers identifies a core human need. When a center is open, the energy that flows through that chakra allows needs to be met more effortlessly. If there is a blockage in one area, energy becomes stagnant and intentions are more difficult to actualize. “You can benefit from Chakra Balancing

if you wish to: •Release emotional pain from past experiences that gets stored at subtle levels of the body, •Experience more vitality, •Shift the energy around deeply rooted behaviors, helping you break free of old conditioned patterns, •Nourish and develop specific positive traits, •Experience greater ease and clarity during a transition of any sort, •Deeply cleanse and nourish your energetic channels, •Supplement and support your spiritual, meditation, and yoga practice, •Enliven your inner intelligence, allowing you to bloom into your full potential.” - The Chopra Center “This modality is a system of healing that we work with to resolve, release, and balance the human energy field - creating whole health that benefits the body, heart, mind, and spirit,” explains Rock Tavern wellness practitioner Debra Sheafe. See ad page 9.

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ARTIST OPPORTUNITY To mark the annual occasion of Banned Books Week (beginning in late September) the Wisner Library is inviting community artists to submit an artwork based on a banned book. These art pieces will be exhibited in the new outdoor Story Walk display area. The Wisner Story Walk is a series of 18 to 20 weatherproof display frames permanently

mounted on posts which are suitable for outdoor exhibits. It will be installed along the grassy walkway that connects the new River Birch Patio area with the far end of the parking lot. For information, how to get a list of books banned or challenged in the U.S., and to sign up, call Kathleen G. at 845-986-1047 ext. 5.

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Orange, Sullivan and Pike County chorales begin rehearsals in early September for their December concerts. New singers (for all voice parts - soprano, alto, tenor and bass) are always encouraged to join. Singers of all levels, from amateur to “trained” are welcomed. Each chorale has different guuidelines and requirements. Some require auditions, some do not. Some require chorus members to read music, some do not. There is usually a small fee for membership. The Classic Choral Society, under the direction of Janiece Kohler rehearses on Mondays at 7:30pm in Blooming Grove. Visit www.classicchoralsociety.org or call 845-713-4543. No auditions required. The Warwick Valley Chorale, under the direction of Stanley Curtis, rehearses on Tuesdays at 7:30pm in Warwick. No auditions required. Visit www.warwickvalleychorale. org or contact savazoo@hotmail.com The Newburgh Symphonic Chorale, under the direction of Michael Saunders, holds rehearsals on Tuesdays in Newburgh, from 7:00pm-9:00pm. No auditions. Email: MSaunde1@Stevens.edu The Sullivan County Community Chorus, under the direction of Kevin Giroux, resumes weekly Thursday evening rehearsals on September 6 at 6:30pm in the Orchestra Room of the Liberty Middle School, 145 Buckley Street, Liberty.

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Each prospective new member is required to meet with Conductor Giroux on September 6 beginning at 5:30pm for a short series of vocal warm-ups designed to determine vocal range for placement in the appropriate section of the chorus, as well as to ensure an ability to match pitch. Visit www.scchorus.org and Facebook, or call 845-439-4458. The Middletown Concert Chorale, directed by Danielle Cornacchio, rehearses on Mondays at 7:00pm in Middletown. Call 845-457-2730 or 845-386-4398. The Delaware Valley Choral Society, under the direction of Jeffrey Fornoff, rehearses Sundays at 2:00pm in Milford. In addition, auditions will be held: August 26 at 2:00pm, August 30 at 7:00pm, September 4 at 7:00pm and September 9 at 2:00pm. Contact jeffrey.marc.fornoff@gmail.com Ron De Fesi’s Hudson Opera Theatre Chorus is comprised of trained singers. For auditions, applicants must sing one operatic aria from the Italian, French, German or Russian repertoire. They must also demonstrate an ability to sight-sing a typical classical or romantic operatic chorus part. Rehearsals are Fridays from 7:30pm10:00pm in Sugar Loaf. There are also sectionals on occasional evenings. Call Zoey at 845-661-0544 to set up an audition. Visit www.hotopera.com See also Men of Note ad on page 22.

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“Jason Miles has raised the level of excellence for the musicians who have had the good fortune of working with him, myself included. He has enriched the lives of the millions of people Jason Miles who have listened to the music he plays, the recordings he produces and the countless musicians he mentors and inspires. The work he did with my friends, Miles Davis and Marcus Miller, have helped to define the modern face of jazz music.” - Roberta Flack Rave Tesar’s musical background is deep and wide ranging. As a result, his style is a rich blending of classical, jazz, and pop music, displaying a strong technique and an adventurous sense of improvisation. In addition to his work as a keyboardist, Tesar is also a composer, arranger, and record producer with a number of recordings that

feature his compositions and arrangements, and a catalogue of over seven hundred pieces for film and television. On September 30 at 2:00pm at Arrow Rave Tesar Park, 1061 Orange Turnpike, Monroe, internationally successful musicians Jason Miles and Rave Tesar will give individual performances. They will then teach a Master Class to five young aspiring musicians, including 2018 Music For Humanity scholarship applicants. This is a free event. To attend, send an email with “September 30th” as the subject line to: Barry@MusicForHumanity.org Include your name, phone number and how many tickets you would like - the maximum is 6. Seats will be reserved until 1:40pm. Special thanks to Orange County Arts Council for their support.

3rd Milford Readers & Writers Festival The Milford Readers and Writers Festival was conceived on a cold and wet evening in March 2016. Literary lawyer Bob Levine, authors Suzanne Braun Levine and Amy Ferris and Milford’s mayor (and Mary Badham author!) Sean Strub had dinner together and fantasized about creating a literary festival in Milford. Less than six months later, with a group of intense volunteers and collaborators, the fantasy became reality - and the Festival is now in its third year. In addition to the ticketed events, the festival, running September 28-30, offers free programs to the public, including storytelling, children & young adult events, a panel for parents, and an artificial intelligence-themed science fiction panel all at the Pike County Library. Other panels include poetry, comic books, romance, an open-mic, a pop-up bookstore, conversations and book-signings with local writers and more. To Kill a Mocking Bird (1962) opens the Festival with a screening on September 28 at the Milford Theatre, 114 E Catherine Street, featuring special guest Mary Badham who played “Scout”. Badham was chosen for the role of Scout at the age of 10 with no prior acting experience. She won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress and,

at that time, was the youngest person ever to do so. Badham will be in conversation with local director Michelle Oram, discussing the movie, her friendship with Gregory Peck, and how Alan Alda the movie resonates today. It has recently been removed from a high school reading list because it “makes people uncomfortable.” Festival headliners include a conversation with Emmy winning actor and author Alan Alda; feminist writer and activist Susan Faludi in conversation with Carol Jenkins, Emmy-winning anchor and correspondent for NBC; Pulitzer Prize winning author Frances FitzGerald in conversation with Phil Klay, moderated by Lucian Truscott IV; and a panel on publishing, all of which take place on the main stage of the Milford Theatre on September 29. The audience is invited to join in these conversations. The mainstage events continue on September 30 featuring columnist Andrew Napolitano in conversation with Joe Sestack; followed by New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Christopher Weyant, and David Borchart. The afternoon wraps up with the popular women’s panel, Women of Our Words. Visit www.milfordreadersandwriters.com

May I Have A Word With You ... Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky SEPTEMBER We may become wistful with September’s arrival. To a songwriter, the ninth month may portend the beginning of an end. Maxwell Anderson wrote the words to September Song: “the days grow short when you reach September...and I haven’t got time for the waiting game...and these few precious days I’ll spend with you, these precious days I’ll spend with you.” Lyrics by Sammy Cahn: “I keep looking back to yesterdays ‘til a long forgotten love appears, and I find, I’m sighing softly as I near September, the warm September of Sammy Cahn my years.” Fiona Apple’s words for the song Pale September: “I wore the time like a dress that year, the autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my Fiona Apple skin, but as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared, my heart went cold and only hollow rhythms

resounded from within.” September When it Comes was written by Roseanne Cash: “I watch the clouds go sailing, I watch the clock and sun, Oh I watch myself depending on September when it comes.” LET THE FARCE BE WITH YOU A ‘farce’ is a comic drama or book featuring zany, over-the-top characters in ridiculous, unlikely situations. The Producers was a farce, also, Some Like it Hot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the old-time Marx brothers’ movies. It’s surprising to learn that the word ‘farce’ shares its origin with the medical term for heart attack, myocardial infarction, which is no laughing matter. The common ancestor is the Latin ‘infarcire’ meaning to plug up, cram or block. With a heart attack, the clogging of the arteries deprives the heart of circulating blood. In early theater, a farce was a comical diversion crammed in between acts of a serious drama. The short interlude was packed with jokes and mayhem, providing time for scenery changes and allowing the actors to rest. ‘Farci’ the French word for stuffing, shares the same origin. “Chou Farci” is stuffed cabbage.

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